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Audio is the main form for the visually impaired to obtain information. In reality, all kinds of visual data always exist, but audio data does not exist in many cases. In order to help the visually impaired people to better perceive the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Hailong Ning , Xiangtao Zheng , Yuan Yuan , Xiaoqiang Lu

Automated audio captioning (AAC) is the task of automatically creating textual descriptions (i.e. captions) for the contents of a general audio signal. Most AAC methods are using existing datasets to optimize and/or evaluate upon. Given the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Jan Berg , Konstantinos Drossos

Compared with ample visual-text pre-training research, few works explore audio-text pre-training, mostly due to the lack of sufficient parallel audio-text data. Most existing methods incorporate the visual modality as a pivot for audio-text…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Xuenan Xu , Zhiling Zhang , Zelin Zhou , Pingyue Zhang , Zeyu Xie , Mengyue Wu , Kenny Q. Zhu

In this paper, we introduce the first large-scale video prediction model in the autonomous driving discipline. To eliminate the restriction of high-cost data collection and empower the generalization ability of our model, we acquire massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Jiazhi Yang , Shenyuan Gao , Yihang Qiu , Li Chen , Tianyu Li , Bo Dai , Kashyap Chitta , Penghao Wu , Jia Zeng , Ping Luo , Jun Zhang , Andreas Geiger , Yu Qiao , Hongyang Li

Our objective in this work is long range understanding of the narrative structure of movies. Instead of considering the entire movie, we propose to learn from the `key scenes' of the movie, providing a condensed look at the full storyline.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Max Bain , Arsha Nagrani , Andrew Brown , Andrew Zisserman

Audio descriptions (ADs) function as acoustic commentaries designed to assist blind persons and persons with visual impairments in accessing digital media content on television and in movies, among other settings. As an accessibility…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yingqiang Gao , Lukas Fischer , Alexa Lintner , Sarah Ebling

Audio description (AD) is a crucial accessibility service provided to blind persons and persons with visual impairment, designed to convey visual information in acoustic form. Despite recent advancements in multilingual machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Lukas Fischer , Yingqiang Gao , Alexa Lintner , Sarah Ebling

Video description is the automatic generation of natural language sentences that describe the contents of a given video. It has applications in human-robot interaction, helping the visually impaired and video subtitling. The past few years…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Nayyer Aafaq , Ajmal Mian , Wei Liu , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Mubarak Shah

Content-based music information retrieval has seen rapid progress with the adoption of deep learning. Current approaches to high-level music description typically make use of classification models, such as in auto-tagging or genre and mood…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Ilaria Manco , Emmanouil Benetos , Elio Quinton , Gyorgy Fazekas

Audio-text retrieval based on natural language descriptions is a challenging task. It involves learning cross-modality alignments between long sequences under inadequate data conditions. In this work, we investigate several audio features…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Siyu Lou , Xuenan Xu , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

The goal of audio captioning is to translate input audio into its description using natural language. One of the problems in audio captioning is the lack of training data due to the difficulty in collecting audio-caption pairs by crawling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Yuma Koizumi , Yasunori Ohishi , Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Masahiro Yasuda

Large-scale multimodal generative modeling has created milestones in text-to-image and text-to-video generation. Its application to audio still lags behind for two main reasons: the lack of large-scale datasets with high-quality text-audio…

Creating a vivid video from the event or scenario in our imagination is a truly fascinating experience. Recent advancements in text-to-video synthesis have unveiled the potential to achieve this with prompts only. While text is convenient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jinbo Xing , Menghan Xia , Yuxin Liu , Yuechen Zhang , Yong Zhang , Yingqing He , Hanyuan Liu , Haoxin Chen , Xiaodong Cun , Xintao Wang , Ying Shan , Tien-Tsin Wong

Automatic movie narration aims to generate video-aligned plot descriptions to assist visually impaired audiences. Unlike standard video captioning, it involves not only describing key visual details but also inferring plots that unfold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Zihao Yue , Yepeng Zhang , Ziheng Wang , Qin Jin

As a challenging task, text-to-image generation aims to generate photo-realistic and semantically consistent images according to the given text descriptions. Existing methods mainly extract the text information from only one sentence to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xintian Wu , Hanbin Zhao , Liangli Zheng , Shouhong Ding , Xi Li

We present MM-Narrator, a novel system leveraging GPT-4 with multimodal in-context learning for the generation of audio descriptions (AD). Unlike previous methods that primarily focused on downstream fine-tuning with short video clips,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Chaoyi Zhang , Kevin Lin , Zhengyuan Yang , Jianfeng Wang , Linjie Li , Chung-Ching Lin , Zicheng Liu , Lijuan Wang

Animated movies are captivating for their unique character designs and imaginative storytelling, yet they pose significant challenges for existing recognition systems. Unlike the consistent visual patterns detected by conventional face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zhongrui Gui , Junyu Xie , Tengda Han , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Understanding video content and generating caption with context is an important and challenging task. Unlike prior methods that typically attempt to generate generic video captions without context, our architecture contextualizes captioning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Philipp Rimle , Pelin Dogan , Markus Gross

In recent years, text-to-audio models have revolutionized the field of automatic audio generation. This paper investigates their application in generating synthetic datasets for training data-driven models. Specifically, this study analyzes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Francesca Ronchini , Luca Comanducci , Fabio Antonacci

Increasing amount of research has shed light on machine perception of audio events, most of which concerns detection and classification tasks. However, human-like perception of audio scenes involves not only detecting and classifying audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Mengyue Wu , Heinrich Dinkel , Kai Yu