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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

Previous works show that noisy, web-crawled image-text pairs may limit vision-language pretraining like CLIP and propose learning with synthetic captions as a promising alternative. Our work continues this effort, introducing two simple yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yanqing Liu , Xianhang Li , Zeyu Wang , Bingchen Zhao , Cihang Xie

Recent advancements in multimodal models highlight the value of rewritten captions for improving performance, yet key challenges remain. For example, while synthetic captions often provide superior quality and image-text alignment, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Zhengfeng Lai , Vasileios Saveris , Chen Chen , Hong-You Chen , Haotian Zhang , Bowen Zhang , Juan Lao Tebar , Wenze Hu , Zhe Gan , Peter Grasch , Meng Cao , Yinfei Yang

We introduce Diffusion-based Audio Captioning (DAC), a non-autoregressive diffusion model tailored for diverse and efficient audio captioning. Although existing captioning models relying on language backbones have achieved remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Manjie Xu , Chenxing Li , Xinyi Tu , Yong Ren , Ruibo Fu , Wei Liang , Dong Yu

In this work, we aim to analyze and optimize the EnCLAP framework, a state-of-the-art model in automated audio captioning. We investigate the impact of modifying the acoustic encoder components, explore pretraining with different dataset…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Jaeyeon Kim , Minjeon Jeon , Jaeyoon Jung , Sang Hoon Woo , Jinjoo Lee

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have recently emerged, demonstrating remarkable vision-understanding capabilities. However, training these models requires large-scale datasets, which brings challenges related to efficiency, effectiveness, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zheng Liu , Hao Liang , Bozhou Li , Wentao Xiong , Chong Chen , Conghui He , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui

Audio captioning aims to generate text descriptions of audio clips. In the real world, many objects produce similar sounds. How to accurately recognize ambiguous sounds is a major challenge for audio captioning. In this work, inspired by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Xubo Liu , Qiushi Huang , Xinhao Mei , Haohe Liu , Qiuqiang Kong , Jianyuan Sun , Shengchen Li , Tom Ko , Yu Zhang , Lilian H. Tang , Mark D. Plumbley , Volkan Kılıç , Wenwu Wang

In traditional audio captioning methods, a model is usually trained in a fully supervised manner using a human-annotated dataset containing audio-text pairs and then evaluated on the test sets from the same dataset. Such methods have two…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yiming Zhang , Xuenan Xu , Ruoyi Du , Haohe Liu , Yuan Dong , Zheng-Hua Tan , Wenwu Wang , Zhanyu Ma

There has been significant research on developing pretrained transformer architectures for multimodal-to-text generation tasks. Albeit performance improvements, such models are frequently overparameterized, hence suffer from hallucination…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Arvind Krishna Sridhar , Yinyi Guo , Erik Visser , Rehana Mahfuz

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

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

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…

Automated audio captioning (AAC) is a novel task, where a method takes as an input an audio sample and outputs a textual description (i.e. a caption) of its contents. Most AAC methods are adapted from from image captioning of machine…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-22 An Tran , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

We introduce AudioLM, a framework for high-quality audio generation with long-term consistency. AudioLM maps the input audio to a sequence of discrete tokens and casts audio generation as a language modeling task in this representation…

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

The effectiveness of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models critically depends on the semantic diversity and quality of their training data. However, while existing synthetic data generation methods primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yuanxiang Huangfu , Chaochao Wang , Weilei Wang

High-quality, large-scale audio captioning is crucial for advancing audio understanding, yet current automated methods often generate captions that lack fine-grained detail and contextual accuracy, primarily due to their reliance on limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shunian Chen , Xinyuan Xie , Zheshu Chen , Liyan Zhao , Owen Lee , Zhan Su , Qilin Sun , Benyou Wang

Diffusion models have shown promising results in cross-modal generation tasks, including text-to-image and text-to-audio generation. However, generating music, as a special type of audio, presents unique challenges due to limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Ke Chen , Yusong Wu , Haohe Liu , Marianna Nezhurina , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov

Automated audio captioning (AAC) which generates textual descriptions of audio content. Existing AAC models achieve good results but only use the high-dimensional representation of the encoder. There is always insufficient information…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Jianyuan Sun , Xubo Liu , Xinhao Mei , Volkan Kılıç , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

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