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A more robust and holistic language-video representation is the key to pushing video understanding forward. Despite the improvement in training strategies, the quality of the language-video dataset is less attention to. The current plain…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yuchen Yang , Yingxuan Duan

Audio captioning aims at generating natural language descriptions for audio clips automatically. Existing audio captioning models have shown promising improvement in recent years. However, these models are mostly trained via maximum…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Jianyuan Sun , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

In this paper we present our researches regarding automat parsing of audio recordings. These recordings are obtained from children with dyslalia and are necessary for an accurate identification of speech problems. We develop the ADM…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-06-20 Ovidiu-Andrei Schipor , Titus-Marian Nestor

This project involved participation in the DCASE 2022 Competition (Task 6) which had two subtasks: (1) Automated Audio Captioning and (2) Language-Based Audio Retrieval. The first subtask involved the generation of a textual description for…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Clive Gomes , Hyejin Park , Patrick Kollman , Yi Song , Iffanice Houndayi , Ankit Shah

Audio-Language Models (ALMs), trained on paired audio-text data, are designed to process, understand, and reason about audio-centric multimodal content. Unlike traditional supervised approaches that use predefined labels, ALMs leverage…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yi Su , Jisheng Bai , Qisheng Xu , Kele Xu , Yong Dou

Audio event detection is a widely studied audio processing task, with applications ranging from self-driving cars to healthcare. In-the-wild datasets such as Audioset have propelled research in this field. However, many efforts typically…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-16 Rajat Hebbar , Digbalay Bose , Krishna Somandepalli , Veena Vijai , Shrikanth Narayanan

Learning to associate audio with textual descriptions is valuable for a range of tasks, including pretraining, zero-shot classification, audio retrieval, audio captioning, and text-conditioned audio generation. Existing contrastive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Paul Primus , Florian Schmid , Gerhard Widmer

Large multimodal models demonstrate remarkable generalist ability to perform diverse multimodal tasks in a zero-shot manner. Large-scale web-based image-text pairs contribute fundamentally to this success, but suffer from excessive noise.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Qiying Yu , Quan Sun , Xiaosong Zhang , Yufeng Cui , Fan Zhang , Yue Cao , Xinlong Wang , Jingjing Liu

Recently, there has been an increasing focus on audio-text cross-modal learning. However, most of the existing audio-text datasets contain only simple descriptions of sound events. Compared with classification labels, the advantages of such…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Xuenan Xu , Xiaohang Xu , Zeyu Xie , Pingyue Zhang , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Text-to-audio (TTA) system has recently gained attention for its ability to synthesize general audio based on text descriptions. However, previous studies in TTA have limited generation quality with high computational costs. In this study,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Haohe Liu , Zehua Chen , Yi Yuan , Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Danilo Mandic , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

In this work, we propose the use of "aligned visual captions" as a mechanism for integrating information contained within videos into retrieval augmented generation (RAG) based chat assistant systems. These captions are able to describe the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Kevin Dela Rosa

Accurate dialogue description in audiovisual video captioning is crucial for downstream understanding and generation tasks. However, existing models generally struggle to produce faithful dialogue descriptions within audiovisual captions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xinlong Chen , Weihong Lin , Jingyun Hua , Linli Yao , Yue Ding , Bozhou Li , Bohan Zeng , Yang Shi , Qiang Liu , Yuanxing Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan

The recent advancements introduced by Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support complex, real world tasks, pushing research outside the text boundaries towards multi modal contexts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Federico Toschi , Nicolò Brunello , Andrea Sassella , Vincenzo Scotti , Mark James Carman

This paper proposes a method for unsupervised anomalous sound detection (UASD) and captioning the reason for detection. While there is a method that captions the difference between given normal and anomalous sound pairs, it is assumed to be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Ryoya Ogura , Tomoya Nishida , Yohei Kawaguchi

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks, challenging our understanding of learning and cognition. Despite the recent success, current LLMs are not capable of processing…

This work studies how to transform an album to vivid and coherent stories, a task we refer to as "album storytelling". While this task can help preserve memories and facilitate experience sharing, it remains an underexplored area in current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Munan Ning , Yujia Xie , Dongdong Chen , Zeyin Song , Lu Yuan , Yonghong Tian , Qixiang Ye , Li Yuan

The explosion of short videos has dramatically reshaped the manners people socialize, yielding a new trend for daily sharing and access to the latest information. These rich video resources, on the one hand, benefited from the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Sen Pei , Jingya Yu , Qi Chen , Wozhou He

There has been a recent spike in interest in multi-modal Language and Vision problems. On the language side, most of these models primarily focus on English since most multi-modal datasets are monolingual. We try to bridge this gap with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Pranav Aggarwal , Ajinkya Kale

The rapid advancement of Audio Large Language Models (ALLMs) has enabled cost-effective, high-fidelity generation and manipulation of both speech and non-speech audio, including sound effects, singing voices, and music. While these…

Contrastive learning has shown remarkable success in the field of multimodal representation learning. In this paper, we propose a pipeline of contrastive language-audio pretraining to develop an audio representation by combining audio data…