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While significant progress has been made in the image captioning task, video description is still in its infancy due to the complex nature of video data. Generating multi-sentence descriptions for long videos is even more challenging. Among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Jae Sung Park , Marcus Rohrbach , Trevor Darrell , Anna Rohrbach

Retrieval-augmented generation can improve audio captioning by incorporating relevant audio-text pairs from a knowledge base. Existing methods typically rely solely on the input audio as a unimodal retrieval query. In contrast, we propose…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Choi Changin , Lim Sungjun , Rhee Wonjong

Video captioning aims to automatically generate natural language sentences that can describe the visual contents of a given video. Existing generative models like encoder-decoder frameworks cannot explicitly explore the object-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Yang Bai , Junyan Wang , Yang Long , Bingzhang Hu , Yang Song , Maurice Pagnucco , Yu Guan

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

The analysis, processing, and extraction of meaningful information from sounds all around us is the subject of the broader area of audio analytics. Audio captioning is a recent addition to the domain of audio analytics, a cross-modal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Sandeep Kothinti , Dimitra Emmanouilidou

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

Audio captioning aims at describing the content of audio clips with human language. Due to the ambiguity of audio, different people may perceive the same audio differently, resulting in caption disparities (i.e., one audio may correlate to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yiming Zhang , Hong Yu , Ruoyi Du , Zhanyu Ma , Yuan Dong

Generative models have shown significant achievements in audio generation tasks. However, existing models struggle with complex and detailed prompts, leading to potential performance degradation. We hypothesize that this problem stems from…

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 tackle the problem of generating audio samples conditioned on descriptive text captions. In this work, we propose AaudioGen, an auto-regressive generative model that generates audio samples conditioned on text inputs. AudioGen operates…

Automated audio captioning aims at generating textual descriptions for an audio clip. To evaluate the quality of generated audio captions, previous works directly adopt image captioning metrics like SPICE and CIDEr, without justifying their…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Zelin Zhou , Zhiling Zhang , Xuenan Xu , Zeyu Xie , Mengyue Wu , Kenny Q. Zhu

Recently, generative adversarial networks have gained a lot of popularity for image generation tasks. However, such models are associated with complex learning mechanisms and demand very large relevant datasets. This work borrows concepts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Shagan Sah , Chi Zhang , Thang Nguyen , Dheeraj Kumar Peri , Ameya Shringi , Raymond Ptucha

Automated Audio Captioning is a multimodal task that aims to convert audio content into natural language. The assessment of audio captioning systems is typically based on quantitative metrics applied to text data. Previous studies have…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Gijs Wijngaard , Elia Formisano , Bruno L. Giordano , Michel Dumontier

Audio Descriptions (ADs) aim to provide a narration of a movie in text form, describing non-dialogue-related narratives, such as characters, actions, or scene establishment. Automatic generation of ADs remains challenging due to: i) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Bo Fang , Wenhao Wu , Qiangqiang Wu , Yuxin Song , Antoni B. Chan

Deep learning is found to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. However, its adversarial susceptibility in image caption generation is under-explored. We study adversarial examples for vision and language models, which typically adopt an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Nayyer Aafaq , Naveed Akhtar , Wei Liu , Mubarak Shah , Ajmal Mian

Generating relevant responses in a dialog is challenging, and requires not only proper modeling of context in the conversation but also being able to generate fluent sentences during inference. In this paper, we propose a two-step framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Kashif Khan , Gaurav Sahu , Vikash Balasubramanian , Lili Mou , Olga Vechtomova

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

The large-scale visual-language pre-trained model, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), has significantly improved image captioning for scenarios without human-annotated image-caption pairs. Recent advanced CLIP-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Jiarui Yu , Haoran Li , Yanbin Hao , Bin Zhu , Tong Xu , Xiangnan He

In recent years, datasets of paired audio and captions have enabled remarkable success in automatically generating descriptions for audio clips, namely Automated Audio Captioning (AAC). However, it is labor-intensive and time-consuming to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Theodoros Kouzelis , Vassilis Katsouros

A big part of achieving Artificial General Intelligence(AGI) is to build a machine that can see and listen like humans. Much work has focused on designing models for image classification, video classification, object detection, pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Ruotian Luo