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While advanced image captioning systems are increasingly describing images coherently and exactly, recent progress in continual learning allows deep learning models to avoid catastrophic forgetting. However, the domain where image…

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Vision-Language Pre-training has demonstrated its remarkable zero-shot recognition ability and potential to learn generalizable visual representations from language supervision. Taking a step ahead, language-supervised semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Yun Xing , Jian Kang , Aoran Xiao , Jiahao Nie , Ling Shao , Shijian Lu

In this paper we present the first model for directly synthesizing fluent, natural-sounding spoken audio captions for images that does not require natural language text as an intermediate representation or source of supervision. Instead, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Wei-Ning Hsu , David Harwath , Christopher Song , James Glass

We introduce a novel framework for image captioning that can produce natural language explicitly grounded in entities that object detectors find in the image. Our approach reconciles classical slot filling approaches (that are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Jiasen Lu , Jianwei Yang , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Our objective is the automatic generation of Audio Descriptions (ADs) for edited video material, such as movies and TV series. To achieve this, we propose a two-stage framework that leverages "shots" as the fundamental units of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Junyu Xie , Tengda Han , Max Bain , Arsha Nagrani , Eshika Khandelwal , Gül Varol , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Understanding complex human activities demands the ability to decompose motion into fine-grained, semantic-aligned sub-actions. This motion grounding process is crucial for behavior analysis, embodied AI and virtual reality. Yet, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yunjiao Zhou , Xinyan Chen , Junlang Qian , Lihua Xie , Jianfei Yang

Automated audio captioning (AAC) is the task of automatically generating textual descriptions for general audio signals. A captioning system has to identify various information from the input signal and express it with natural language.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Benno Weck , Xavier Favory , Konstantinos Drossos , Xavier Serra

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

Decoding visual semantic representations from human brain activity is a significant challenge. While recent zero-shot decoding approaches have improved performance by leveraging aligned image-text datasets, they overlook a fundamental…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-21 Zhengdi Zhang , Hao Zhang , Wenjun Xia

Generative models have shown significant achievements in audio generation tasks. However, existing models struggle with complex and detailed prompts, leading to potential performance degradation. We hypothesize that this problem stems from…

Prior works have demonstrated zero-shot text-to-speech by using a generative language model on audio tokens obtained via a neural audio codec. It is still challenging, however, to adapt them to low-latency scenarios. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Trung Dang , David Aponte , Dung Tran , Kazuhito Koishida

Zero-shot capability has been considered as a new revolution of deep learning, letting machines work on tasks without curated training data. As a good start and the only existing outcome of zero-shot image captioning (IC), ZeroCap abandons…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Zequn Zeng , Hao Zhang , Zhengjue Wang , Ruiying Lu , Dongsheng Wang , Bo Chen

This study presents a novel zero-shot user-defined keyword spotting model that utilizes the audio-phoneme relationship of the keyword to improve performance. Unlike the previous approach that estimates at utterance level, we use both…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Yong-Hyeok Lee , Namhyun Cho

Open-vocabulary models are a promising new paradigm for image classification. Unlike traditional classification models, open-vocabulary models classify among any arbitrary set of categories specified with natural language during inference.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Sarah Pratt , Ian Covert , Rosanne Liu , Ali Farhadi

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has demonstrated great zero-shot performance for matching images and text. However, it is still challenging to adapt vision-lanaguage pretrained models like CLIP to compositional image and text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kenan Jiang , Xuehai He , Ruize Xu , Xin Eric Wang

The evaluation of machine-generated image captions poses an interesting yet persistent challenge. Effective evaluation measures must consider numerous dimensions of similarity, including semantic relevance, visual structure, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 David Chan , Suzanne Petryk , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell , John Canny

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

Pretrained language models have improved zero-shot text classification by allowing the transfer of semantic knowledge from the training data in order to classify among specific label sets in downstream tasks. We propose a simple way to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Lingyu Gao , Debanjan Ghosh , Kevin Gimpel

A major challenge in text-video and text-audio retrieval is the lack of large-scale training data. This is unlike image-captioning, where datasets are in the order of millions of samples. To close this gap we propose a new video mining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Arsha Nagrani , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Bryan Seybold , Anja Hauth , Santiago Manen , Chen Sun , Cordelia Schmid

Mainstream Audio Analytics models are trained to learn under the paradigm of one class label to many recordings focusing on one task. Learning under such restricted supervision limits the flexibility of models because they require labeled…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Benjamin Elizalde , Soham Deshmukh , Mahmoud Al Ismail , Huaming Wang