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Video captioning is a challenging task since it requires generating sentences describing various diverse and complex videos. Existing video captioning models lack adequate visual representation due to the neglect of the existence of gaps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Mingkang Tang , Zhanyu Wang , Zhenhua Liu , Fengyun Rao , Dian Li , Xiu Li

State-of-the-art audio captioning methods typically use the encoder-decoder structure with pretrained audio neural networks (PANNs) as encoders for feature extraction. However, the convolution operation used in PANNs is limited in capturing…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Feiyang Xiao , Jian Guan , Qiaoxi Zhu , Wenwu Wang

Due to the rapid emergence of short videos and the requirement for content understanding and creation, the video captioning task has received increasing attention in recent years. In this paper, we convert traditional video captioning task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Ziqi Zhang , Zhongang Qi , Chunfeng Yuan , Ying Shan , Bing Li , Ying Deng , Weiming Hu

This paper introduces the retrieval-augmented framework for automatic fashion caption and hashtag generation, combining multi-garment detection, attribute reasoning, and Large Language Model (LLM) prompting. The system aims to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Moazzam Umer Gondal , Hamad Ul Qudous , Daniya Siddiqui , Asma Ahmad Farhan

We proposed Audio Difference Captioning (ADC) as a new extension task of audio captioning for describing the semantic differences between input pairs of similar but slightly different audio clips. The ADC solves the problem that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Daisuke Niizumi , Noboru Harada , Kunio Kashino

Figures are essential channels for densely communicating complex ideas in scientific papers. Previous work in automatically generating figure captions has been largely unsuccessful and has defaulted to using single-layer LSTMs, which no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Stanley Cao , Kevin Liu

Automated Audio Captioning is a cross-modal task, generating natural language descriptions to summarize the audio clips' sound events. However, grounding the actual sound events in the given audio based on its corresponding caption has not…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Xuenan Xu , Heinrich Dinkel , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Paraphrase generation is a fundamental and long-standing task in natural language processing. In this paper, we concentrate on two contributions to the task: (1) we propose Retrieval Augmented Prompt Tuning (RAPT) as a parameter-efficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jishnu Ray Chowdhury , Yong Zhuang , Shuyi Wang

With the rapid growth of video data on the internet, video summarization is becoming a very important AI technology. However, due to the high labelling cost of video summarization, existing studies have to be conducted on small-scale…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Cairong Zhao , Chutian Wang , Zifan Song , Guosheng Hu , Haonan Chen , Xiaofan Zhai

In conventional studies on environmental sound separation and synthesis using captions, datasets consisting of multiple-source sounds with their captions were used for model training. However, when we collect the captions for…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yuki Okamoto , Kanta Shimonishi , Keisuke Imoto , Kota Dohi , Shota Horiguchi , Yohei Kawaguchi

We propose Fast Language-Audio Pre-training (FLAP), a self-supervised approach that efficiently and effectively learns aligned audio and language representations through masking, contrastive learning and reconstruction. For efficiency, FLAP…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Ching-Feng Yeh , Po-Yao Huang , Vasu Sharma , Shang-Wen Li , Gargi Gosh

Instructional videos are a common source for learning text-video or even multimodal representations by leveraging subtitles extracted with automatic speech recognition systems (ASR) from the audio signal in the videos. However, in contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Nina Shvetsova , Anna Kukleva , Xudong Hong , Christian Rupprecht , Bernt Schiele , Hilde Kuehne

Contrastive language-audio pretraining (CLAP) has recently emerged as a method for making audio analysis more generalisable. Specifically, CLAP-style models are able to `answer' a diverse set of language queries, extending the capabilities…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Xin Jing , Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Björn Schuller

Massive web datasets play a key role in the success of large vision-language models like CLIP and Flamingo. However, the raw web data is noisy, and existing filtering methods to reduce noise often come at the expense of data diversity. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Thao Nguyen , Samir Yitzhak Gadre , Gabriel Ilharco , Sewoong Oh , Ludwig Schmidt

Large Audio Language Models struggle to disentangle overlapping events in complex acoustic scenes, yielding temporally inconsistent captions and frequent hallucinations. We introduce Timestamped Audio Captioner (TAC), a model that produces…

Humans possess the capacity to reason about the future based on a sparse collection of visual cues acquired over time. In order to emulate this ability, we introduce a novel task called Anticipation Captioning, which generates a caption for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Duc Minh Vo , Quoc-An Luong , Akihiro Sugimoto , Hideki Nakayama

Automatic music captioning, which generates natural language descriptions for given music tracks, holds significant potential for enhancing the understanding and organization of large volumes of musical data. Despite its importance,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-01 SeungHeon Doh , Keunwoo Choi , Jongpil Lee , Juhan Nam

Automated Audio captioning (AAC) is a cross-modal translation task that aims to use natural language to describe the content of an audio clip. As shown in the submissions received for Task 6 of the DCASE 2021 Challenges, this problem has…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Xubo Liu , Qiushi Huang , Xinhao Mei , Tom Ko , H Lilian Tang , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

AudioSet is a widely used benchmark in the audio research community and has significantly advanced various audio-related tasks. However, persistent issues with label accuracy and completeness remain critical bottlenecks that limit…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yulin Sun , Qisheng Xu , Yi Su , Qian Zhu , Yong Dou , Xinwang Liu , Kele Xu

Large language models in healthcare often produce emotionally flat or opaque responses, failing to provide the transparent reasoning required for clinical trust. We present RECAP (Reflect-Extract-Calibrate-Align-Produce), an inference-time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Adarsh Srinivasan , Jacob Dineen , Muhammad Umar Afzal , Muhammad Uzair Sarfraz , Irbaz B. Riaz , Ben Zhou