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Audio captioning is an important research area that aims to generate meaningful descriptions for audio clips. Most of the existing research extracts acoustic features of audio clips as input to encoder-decoder and transformer architectures…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Ayşegül Özkaya Eren , Mustafa Sert

Automatic metrics for evaluating translation quality are typically validated by measuring how well they correlate with human assessments. However, correlation methods tend to capture only the ability of metrics to differentiate between good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Sweta Agrawal , António Farinhas , Ricardo Rei , André F. T. Martins

Dual-encoder-based audio retrieval systems are commonly optimized with contrastive learning on a set of matching and mismatching audio-caption pairs. This leads to a shared embedding space in which corresponding items from the two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-22 Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

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

In recent years, machine learning has been widely adopted to automate the audio mixing process. Automatic mixing systems have been applied to various audio effects such as gain-adjustment, equalization, and reverberation. These systems can…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Satvik Venkatesh , David Moffat , Eduardo Reck Miranda

Automated audio captioning is a cross-modal translation task that aims to generate natural language descriptions for given audio clips. This task has received increasing attention with the release of freely available datasets in recent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Automatic Audio Captioning (AAC) refers to the task of translating an audio sample into a natural language (NL) text that describes the audio events, source of the events and their relationships. Unlike NL text generation tasks, which rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Swapnil Bhosale , Rupayan Chakraborty , Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

In this paper, we propose SemanticAC, a semantics-assisted framework for Audio Classification to better leverage the semantic information. Unlike conventional audio classification methods that treat class labels as discrete vectors, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Yicheng Xiao , Yue Ma , Shuyan Li , Hantao Zhou , Ran Liao , Xiu Li

Assessing the degree of semantic relatedness between words is an important task with a variety of semantic applications, such as ontology learning for the Semantic Web, semantic search or query expansion. To accomplish this in an automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Thomas Niebler , Martin Becker , Christian Pölitz , Andreas Hotho

There are several issues with the existing general machine translation or natural language generation evaluation metrics, and question-answering (QA) systems are indifferent in that context. To build robust QA systems, we need the ability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Farida Mustafazade , Peter F. Ebbinghaus

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), a task that mimics human perception as well as innovatively links audio processing and natural language processing, has overseen much progress over the last few years. AAC requires recognizing contents such…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Xuenan Xu , Zeyu Xie , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Previous work has considered token overlap, or even similarity of token distributions, as predictors for multilinguality and cross-lingual knowledge transfer in language models. However, these very literal metrics assign large distances to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Katharina Hämmerl , Tomasz Limisiewicz , Jindřich Libovický , Alexander Fraser

Automated audio captioning aims at generating natural language descriptions for given audio clips, not only detecting and classifying sounds, but also summarizing the relationships between audio events. Recent research advances in audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zeyu Xie , Xuenan Xu , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

In the dataset of image captioning, each image is aligned with several descriptions. Despite the fact that the quality of these descriptions varies, existing captioning models treat them equally in the training process. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Zhangzi Zhu , Hong Qu

Existing methods to measure sentence similarity are faced with two challenges: (1) labeled datasets are usually limited in size, making them insufficient to train supervised neural models; (2) there is a training-test gap for unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Xiaofei Sun , Yuxian Meng , Xiang Ao , Fei Wu , Tianwei Zhang , Jiwei Li , Chun Fan

Semantic similarity between natural language texts is typically measured either by looking at the overlap between subsequences (e.g., BLEU) or by using embeddings (e.g., BERTScore, S-BERT). Within this paper, we argue that when we are only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Steffen Herbold

Audio-text relevance learning refers to learning the shared semantic properties of audio samples and textual descriptions. The standard approach uses binary relevances derived from pairs of audio samples and their human-provided captions,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Huang Xie , Khazar Khorrami , Okko Räsänen , Tuomas Virtanen

Automated audio captioning aims to use natural language to describe the content of audio data. This paper presents an audio captioning system with an encoder-decoder architecture, where the decoder predicts words based on audio features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-06 Xinhao Mei , Qiushi Huang , Xubo Liu , Gengyun Chen , Jingqian Wu , Yusong Wu , Jinzheng Zhao , Shengchen Li , Tom Ko , H Lilian Tang , Xi Shao , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Audio captioning is the task of automatically creating a textual description for the contents of a general audio signal. Typical audio captioning methods rely on deep neural networks (DNNs), where the target of the DNN is to map the input…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Khoa Nguyen , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen