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State-of-the-art audio classification often employs a zero-shot approach, which involves comparing audio embeddings with embeddings from text describing the respective audio class. These embeddings are usually generated by neural networks…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-29 James Taylor , Wolfgang Mack

Audio-visual captioning aims to generate holistic scene descriptions by jointly modeling sound and vision. While recent methods have improved performance through sophisticated modality fusion, it remains unclear to what extent the two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Yuchi Ishikawa , Toranosuke Manabe , Tatsuya Komatsu , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) is the task of generating natural language descriptions given an audio stream. A typical AAC system requires manually curated training data of audio segments and corresponding text caption annotations. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Soham Deshmukh , Benjamin Elizalde , Dimitra Emmanouilidou , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh , Huaming Wang

Automated audio captioning is a cross-modal translation task for describing the content of audio clips with natural language sentences. This task has attracted increasing attention and substantial progress has been made in recent years.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Jianyuan Sun , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) generates captions for audio clips but faces challenges due to limited datasets compared to image captioning. To overcome this, we propose the zero-shot AAC system that leverages pre-trained models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Vijay Govindarajan , Pratik Patel , Sahil Tripathi , Md Azizul Hoque , Gautam Siddharth Kashyap

Audio-text models trained via contrastive learning offer a practical approach to perform audio classification through natural language prompts, such as "this is a sound of" followed by category names. In this work, we explore alternative…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Michel Olvera , Paraskevas Stamatiadis , Slim Essid

Audio captioning is a multi-modal task, focusing on using natural language for describing the contents of general audio. Most audio captioning methods are based on deep neural networks, employing an encoder-decoder scheme and a dataset with…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Emre Çakır , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

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

Supervised learning methods can solve the given problem in the presence of a large set of labeled data. However, the acquisition of a dataset covering all the target classes typically requires manual labeling which is expensive and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Duygu Dogan , Huang Xie , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

Audio captioning aims to generate text descriptions from environmental sounds. One challenge of audio captioning is the difficulty of the generalization due to the lack of audio-text paired training data. In this work, we propose a simple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Minkyu Kim , Kim Sung-Bin , Tae-Hyun Oh

Machines that can represent and describe environmental soundscapes have practical potential, e.g., for audio tagging and captioning systems. Prevailing learning paradigms have been relying on parallel audio-text data, which is, however,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yanpeng Zhao , Jack Hessel , Youngjae Yu , Ximing Lu , Rowan Zellers , Yejin Choi

The Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) task asks models to generate natural language descriptions of an audio input. Evaluating these machine-generated audio captions is a complex task that requires considering diverse factors, among them,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Tsung-Han Wu , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell , David M. Chan

This paper proposes to use similarities of audio captions for estimating audio-caption relevances to be used for training text-based audio retrieval systems. Current audio-caption datasets (e.g., Clotho) contain audio samples paired with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Huang Xie , Khazar Khorrami , Okko Räsänen , Tuomas Virtanen

Audio captioning quality metrics which are typically borrowed from the machine translation and image captioning areas measure the degree of overlap between predicted tokens and gold reference tokens. In this work, we consider a metric…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Rehana Mahfuz , Yinyi Guo , Erik Visser

Automatically generating a natural language sentence to describe the content of an input video is a very challenging problem. It is an essential multimodal task in which auditory and visual contents are equally important. Although audio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Yapeng Tian , Chenxiao Guan , Justin Goodman , Marc Moore , Chenliang Xu

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

Image caption generation is a long standing and challenging problem at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing. A number of recently proposed approaches utilize a fully supervised object recognition model within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Berkan Demirel , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

Image caption generation is one of the most challenging problems at the intersection of vision and language domains. In this work, we propose a realistic captioning task where the input scenes may incorporate visual objects with no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Berkan Demirel , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Audio captioning is the novel task of general audio content description using free text. It is an intermodal translation task (not speech-to-text), where a system accepts as an input an audio signal and outputs the textual description (i.e.…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Konstantinos Drossos , Samuel Lipping , Tuomas Virtanen

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