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Given the features of a video, recurrent neural networks can be used to automatically generate a caption for the video. Existing methods for video captioning have at least three limitations. First, semantic information has been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Haoran Chen , Ke Lin , Alexander Maye , Jianming Li , Xiaolin Hu

Despite significant advancements in caption generation, existing evaluation metrics often fail to capture the full quality or fine-grained details of captions. This is mainly due to their reliance on non-specific human-written references or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sara Sarto , Nicholas Moratelli , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Developers of text generation models rely on automated evaluation metrics as a stand-in for slow and expensive manual evaluations. However, image captioning metrics have struggled to give accurate learned estimates of the semantic and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Mert İnan , Piyush Sharma , Baber Khalid , Radu Soricut , Matthew Stone , Malihe Alikhani

We present a self-supervised method to improve an agent's abilities in describing arbitrary objects while actively exploring a generic environment. This is a challenging problem, as current models struggle to obtain coherent image captions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tommaso Galliena , Tommaso Apicella , Stefano Rosa , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue , Lorenzo Natale

Video Multimethod Assessment Fusion (VMAF) [1], [2], [3] is a popular tool in the industry for measuring coded video quality. In this study, we propose an auditory-inspired frontend in existing VMAF for creating videos of reference and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Arijit Biswas , Harald Mundt

To establish the trustworthiness of systems that automatically generate text captions for audio, images and video, existing reference-free metrics rely on large pretrained models which are impractical to accommodate in resource-constrained…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Rehana Mahfuz , Yinyi Guo , Erik Visser

Generating audio captions is a new research area that combines audio and natural language processing to create meaningful textual descriptions for audio clips. To address this problem, previous studies mostly use the encoder-decoder based…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Ayşegül Özkaya Eren , Mustafa Sert

Text embedding models are designed for sentence-level applications like retrieval and semantic similarity, and are primarily evaluated on sentence-level benchmarks. Their behavior on isolated words is less understood. We show that simply…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Rajeev Ranjan

Increasing interpreting needs a more objective and automatic measurement. We hold a basic idea that 'translating means translating meaning' in that we can assessment interpretation quality by comparing the meaning of the interpreting output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xiaojun Zhang

Semantic communication, as a revolutionary communication architecture, is considered a promising novel communication paradigm. Unlike traditional symbol-based error-free communication systems, semantic-based visual communication systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Senran Fan , Zhicheng Bao , Chen Dong , Haotai Liang , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang

Image captioning is a multimodal problem that has drawn extensive attention in both the natural language processing and computer vision community. In this paper, we present a novel image captioning architecture to better explore semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Zhan Shi , Xu Zhou , Xipeng Qiu , Xiaodan Zhu

Recognizing semantically similar sentences or paragraphs across languages is beneficial for many tasks, ranging from cross-lingual information retrieval and plagiarism detection to machine translation. Recently proposed methods for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Goran Glavaš , Marc Franco-Salvador , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Paolo Rosso

In natural language processing (NLP), the semantic similarity task requires large-scale, high-quality human-annotated labels for fine-tuning or evaluation. By contrast, in cases of music similarity, such labels are expensive to collect and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Xinran Zhang , Maosong Sun , Jiafeng Liu , Xiaobing Li

Similarity is a comparative-subjective measure that varies with the domain within which it is considered. In several NLP applications such as document classification, pattern recognition, chatbot question-answering, sentiment analysis,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Manuela Nayantara Jeyaraj , Dharshana Kasthurirathna

Automated audio captioning (AAC) has developed rapidly in recent years, involving acoustic signal processing and natural language processing to generate human-readable sentences for audio clips. The current models are generally based on the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zhongjie Ye , Helin Wang , Dongchao Yang , Yuexian Zou

Cross-lingual semantic textual similarity systems estimate the degree of the meaning similarity between two sentences, each in a different language. State-of-the-art algorithms usually employ machine translation and combine vast amount of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Tomáš Brychcín

A major computational burden, while performing document clustering, is the calculation of similarity measure between a pair of documents. Similarity measure is a function that assigns a real number between 0 and 1 to a pair of documents,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Muhammad Rafi , Mohammad Shahid Shaikh

Recently, significant improvements have been achieved in various natural language processing tasks using neural sequence-to-sequence models. While aiming for the best generation quality is important, ultimately it is also necessary to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Jan Niehues , Ngoc-Quan Pham

Automatically generating a human-like description for a given image is a potential research in artificial intelligence, which has attracted a great of attention recently. Most of the existing attention methods explore the mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Feicheng Huang , Zhixin Li , Haiyang Wei , Canlong Zhang , Huifang Ma

Many audio processing tasks require perceptual assessment. However, the time and expense of obtaining ``gold standard'' human judgments limit the availability of such data. Most applications incorporate full reference or other…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Pranay Manocha , Zeyu Jin , Adam Finkelstein