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This paper presents a novel approach to Zero-Shot Action Recognition. Recent works have explored the detection and classification of objects to obtain semantic information from videos with remarkable performance. Inspired by them, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Valter Estevam , Rayson Laroca , David Menotti , Helio Pedrini

Automated audio captioning (AAC) has developed rapidly in recent years, involving acoustic signal processing and natural language processing to generate human-readable sentences for audio clips. The current models are generally based on the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zhongjie Ye , Helin Wang , Dongchao Yang , Yuexian Zou

Recent literature uses language to build foundation models for audio. These Audio-Language Models (ALMs) are trained on a vast number of audio-text pairs and show remarkable performance in tasks including Text-to-Audio Retrieval,…

Incorporating language comprehension into robotic operations unlocks significant advancements in robotics, but also presents distinct challenges, particularly in executing spatially oriented tasks like pattern formation. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Vishnunandan L. N. Venkatesh , Byung-Cheol Min

We present ZSE-Cap (Zero-Shot Ensemble for Captioning), our 4th place system in Event-Enriched Image Analysis (EVENTA) shared task on article-grounded image retrieval and captioning. Our zero-shot approach requires no finetuning on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Duc-Tai Dinh , Duc Anh Khoa Dinh

Audio captioning is an important research area that aims to generate meaningful descriptions for audio clips. Most of the existing research extracts acoustic features of audio clips as input to encoder-decoder and transformer architectures…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Ayşegül Özkaya Eren , Mustafa Sert

AI in dermatology is evolving at a rapid pace but the major limitation to training trustworthy classifiers is the scarcity of data with ground-truth concept level labels, which are meta-labels semantically meaningful to humans. Foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Soham Gadgil , Mahtab Bigverdi

We present RECAP (REtrieval-Augmented Audio CAPtioning), a novel and effective audio captioning system that generates captions conditioned on an input audio and other captions similar to the audio retrieved from a datastore. Additionally,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Sreyan Ghosh , Sonal Kumar , Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru , Ramani Duraiswami , Dinesh Manocha

Data-driven speech processing models usually perform well with a large amount of text supervision, but collecting transcribed speech data is costly. Therefore, we propose SpeechCLIP, a novel framework bridging speech and text through images…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Yi-Jen Shih , Hsuan-Fu Wang , Heng-Jui Chang , Layne Berry , Hung-yi Lee , David Harwath

Recognizing characters and predicting speakers of dialogue are critical for comic processing tasks, such as voice generation or translation. However, because characters vary by comic title, supervised learning approaches like training…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yingxuan Li , Ryota Hinami , Kiyoharu Aizawa , Yusuke Matsui

Audio captioning is the task of automatically creating a textual description for the contents of a general audio signal. Typical audio captioning methods rely on deep neural networks (DNNs), where the target of the DNN is to map the input…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Khoa Nguyen , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

General audio understanding is a fundamental goal for large audio-language models, with audio captioning serving as a cornerstone task for their development. However, progress in this domain is hindered by existing datasets, which lack the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Yadong Niu , Tianzi Wang , Heinrich Dinkel , Xingwei Sun , Jiahao Zhou , Gang Li , Jizhong Liu , Junbo Zhang , Jian Luan

Audio-based music classification and tagging is typically based on categorical supervised learning with a fixed set of labels. This intrinsically cannot handle unseen labels such as newly added music genres or semantic words that users…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Jeong Choi , Jongpil Lee , Jiyoung Park , Juhan Nam

In this paper, we study zero-shot learning in audio classification via semantic embeddings extracted from textual labels and sentence descriptions of sound classes. Our goal is to obtain a classifier that is capable of recognizing audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-12 Huang Xie , Tuomas Virtanen

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

Spoken language understanding systems using audio-only data are gaining popularity, yet their ability to handle unseen intents remains limited. In this study, we propose a generalized zero-shot audio-to-intent classification framework with…

Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP) is pre-trained to associate audio features with human language, making it a natural zero-shot classifier to recognize unseen sound categories. To adapt CLAP to downstream tasks, prior works…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Yiming Li , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu

Open-vocabulary audio-language models, like CLAP, offer a promising approach for zero-shot audio classification (ZSAC) by enabling classification with any arbitrary set of categories specified with natural language prompts. In this paper,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Sreyan Ghosh , Sonal Kumar , Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru , Oriol Nieto , Ramani Duraiswami , Dinesh Manocha

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

Zero-shot classification capabilities naturally arise in models trained within a vision-language contrastive framework. Despite their classification prowess, these models struggle in dense tasks like zero-shot open-vocabulary segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Thomas Stegmüller , Tim Lebailly , Nikola Dukic , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Tinne Tuytelaars , Jean-Philippe Thiran