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Speech representation and modelling in high-dimensional spaces of acoustic waveforms, or a linear transformation thereof, is investigated with the aim of improving the robustness of automatic speech recognition to additive noise. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Matthew Ager , Zoran Cvetkovic , Peter Sollich

Video captioning is a popular task that challenges models to describe events in videos using natural language. In this work, we investigate the ability of various visual feature representations derived from state-of-the-art convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Praveen S , Akhilesh Bharadwaj , Harsh Raj , Janhavi Dadhania , Ganesh Samarth C. A , Nikhil Pareek , S R M Prasanna

Automated audio captioning (AAC) is an important cross-modality translation task, aiming at generating descriptions for audio clips. However, captions generated by previous AAC models have faced ``false-repetition'' errors due to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Hanxue Zhang , Zeyu Xie , Xuenan Xu , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) systems attempt to generate a natural language sentence, a caption, that describes the content of an audio recording, in terms of sound events. Existing datasets provide audio-caption pairs, with captions…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Matéo Cousin , Étienne Labbé , Thomas Pellegrini

We present the first approach to automated audio captioning. We employ an encoder-decoder scheme with an alignment model in between. The input to the encoder is a sequence of log mel-band energies calculated from an audio file, while the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Konstantinos Drossos , Sharath Adavanne , Tuomas Virtanen

Automated audio captioning is a task that generates textual descriptions for audio content, and recent studies have explored using visual information to enhance captioning quality. However, current methods often fail to effectively fuse…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Kyeongha Rho , Hyeongkeun Lee , Valentio Iverson , Joon Son Chung

We introduce Diffusion-based Audio Captioning (DAC), a non-autoregressive diffusion model tailored for diverse and efficient audio captioning. Although existing captioning models relying on language backbones have achieved remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Manjie Xu , Chenxing Li , Xinyi Tu , Yong Ren , Ruibo Fu , Wei Liang , Dong Yu

In Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) two major approaches have been followed . While one utilizes engineered features such as mel-frequency-cepstral-coefficients (MFCCs), the other uses learned features that are the outcome of an…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Bernhard Lehner , Matthias Dorfer , Gerhard Widmer

Fixed beamforming is widely used in practice since it does not depend on the estimation of noise statistics and provides relatively stable performance. However, a single beamformer cannot adapt to varying acoustic conditions, which limits…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yuanhang Qian , Kunlong Zhao , Jilu Jin , Xueqin Luo , Gongping Huang , Jingdong Chen , Jacob Benesty

Voice disorders negatively impact the quality of daily life in various ways. However, accurately recognizing the category of pathological features from raw audio remains a considerable challenge due to the limited dataset. A promising…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Lipeng Shen , Yifan Xiong , Dongyue Guo , Wei Mo , Lingyu Yu , Hui Yang , Yi Lin

Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) aims to describe the semantic contexts of general sounds, including acoustic events and scenes, by leveraging effective acoustic features. To enhance performance, an AAC method, EnCLAP, employed discrete…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Daiki Takeuchi , Binh Thien Nguyen , Masahiro Yasuda , Yasunori Ohishi , Daisuke Niizumi , Noboru Harada

Underwater image enhancement is an important low-level computer vision task for autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely operated vehicles to explore and understand the underwater environments. Recently, deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Hao-Hsiang Yang , Kuan-Chih Huang , Wei-Ting Chen

Automatic speech recognition can potentially benefit from the lip motion patterns, complementing acoustic speech to improve the overall recognition performance, particularly in noise. In this paper we propose an audio-visual fusion strategy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-02 George Sterpu , Christian Saam , Naomi Harte

This study introduces a novel training paradigm, audio difference learning, for improving audio captioning. The fundamental concept of the proposed learning method is to create a feature representation space that preserves the relationship…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Tatsuya Komatsu , Yusuke Fujita , Kazuya Takeda , Tomoki Toda

Automated audio captioning is multi-modal translation task that aim to generate textual descriptions for a given audio clip. In this paper we propose a full Transformer architecture that utilizes Patchout as proposed in [1], significantly…

Full-duplex speech interaction, as the most natural and intuitive mode of human communication, is driving artificial intelligence toward more human-like conversational systems. Traditional cascaded speech processing pipelines suffer from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yadong Li , Guoxin Wu , Haiping Hou , Biye Li

This work is an improved system that we submitted to task 1 of DCASE2023 challenge. We propose a method of low-complexity acoustic scene classification by a parallel attention-convolution network which consists of four modules, including…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Yanxiong Li , Jiaxin Tan , Guoqing Chen , Jialong Li , Yongjie Si , Qianhua He

Audio-visual navigation tasks require agents to locate and navigate toward continuously vocalizing targets using only visual observations and acoustic cues. However, existing methods mainly rely on simple feature concatenation or late…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shaohang Wu , Yinfeng Yu

Automated audio captioning is machine listening task whose goal is to describe an audio using free text. An automated audio captioning system has to be implemented as it accepts an audio as input and outputs as textual description, that is,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-09 Sergi Perez-Castanos , Javier Naranjo-Alcazar , Pedro Zuccarello , Maximo Cobos

Automatic Audio Captioning (AAC) is the task that aims to describe an audio signal using natural language. AAC systems take as input an audio signal and output a free-form text sentence, called a caption. Evaluating such systems is not…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Etienne Labbé , Thomas Pellegrini , Julien Pinquier