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Image captioning is a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, where the model predicts a textual informative caption to a given input image. In this paper, we present a simple approach to address this task. We use CLIP encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Ron Mokady , Amir Hertz , Amit H. Bermano

Image captioning, a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, seeks to generate accurate natural language descriptions for provided images. Current image captioning approaches heavily rely on high-quality image-caption pairs, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Chuanyang Jin

Semantic segmentation models are limited in their ability to scale to large numbers of object classes. In this paper, we introduce the new task of zero-shot semantic segmentation: learning pixel-wise classifiers for never-seen object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Maxime Bucher , Tuan-Hung Vu , Matthieu Cord , Patrick Pérez

Current approaches for large audio language models (LALMs) often rely on closed data sources or proprietary models, limiting their generalization and accessibility. This paper introduces MiDashengLM, a novel open audio-language model…

Automated Audio captioning (AAC) is a cross-modal task that generates natural language to describe the content of input audio. Most prior works usually extract single-modality acoustic features and are therefore sub-optimal for the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Chen Chen , Nana Hou , Yuchen Hu , Heqing Zou , Xiaofeng Qi , Eng Siong Chng

Diffusion models have shown remarkable progress in text-to-audio generation. However, text-guided audio editing remains in its early stages. This task focuses on modifying the target content within an audio signal while preserving the rest,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Liting Gao , Yi Yuan , Yaru Chen , Yuelan Cheng , Zhenbo Li , Juan Wen , Shubin Zhang , Wenwu Wang

Discrete audio representations, termed audio tokens, are broadly categorized into semantic and acoustic tokens, typically generated through unsupervised tokenization of continuous audio representations. However, their applicability to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jingguang Tian , Haoqin Sun , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) makes object recognition in images possible in absence of visual training data for a part of the classes from a dataset. When the number of classes is large, classes are usually represented by semantic class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Yannick Le Cacheux , Adrian Popescu , Hervé Le Borgne

Converting a model's internals to text can yield human-understandable insights about the model. Inspired by the recent success of training-free approaches for image captioning, we propose ZS-A2T, a zero-shot framework that translates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Leonard Salewski , A. Sophia Koepke , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Zeynep Akata

Generative vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit strong high-level image understanding but lack spatially dense alignment between vision and language modalities, as our findings indicate. Orthogonal to advancements in generative VLMs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tim Lebailly , Vijay Veerabadran , Satwik Kottur , Karl Ridgeway , Michael Louis Iuzzolino

Compositional zero-shot learning (CZSL) aims to learn the concepts of attributes and objects in seen compositions and to recognize their unseen compositions. Most Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)-based CZSL methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Pan Yang , Cheng Deng , Jing Yang , Han Zhao , Yun Liu , Yuling Chen , Xiaoli Ruan , Yanping Chen

This paper proposes to use similarities of audio captions for estimating audio-caption relevances to be used for training text-based audio retrieval systems. Current audio-caption datasets (e.g., Clotho) contain audio samples paired with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Huang Xie , Khazar Khorrami , Okko Räsänen , Tuomas Virtanen

Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) aims to generate natural textual descriptions for input audio signals. Recent progress in audio pre-trained models and large language models (LLMs) has significantly enhanced audio understanding and textual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Wenxi Chen , Ziyang Ma , Xiquan Li , Xuenan Xu , Yuzhe Liang , Zhisheng Zheng , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a framework to classify images belonging to unseen classes based on solely semantic information about these unseen classes. In this paper, we propose a new ZSL algorithm using coupled dictionary learning. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Mohammad Rostami , Soheil Kolouri , Zak Murez , Yuri Owekcho , Eric Eaton , Kuyngnam Kim

Automated audio captioning (AAC) is an important cross-modality translation task, aiming at generating descriptions for audio clips. However, captions generated by previous AAC models have faced ``false-repetition'' errors due to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Hanxue Zhang , Zeyu Xie , Xuenan Xu , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize instances of unseen classes solely based on the semantic descriptions of the classes. Existing algorithms usually formulate it as a semantic-visual correspondence problem, by learning mappings from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Kai Li , Martin Renqiang Min , Yun Fu

We propose a rubric-guided, pseudo-labeled, and prompt-driven zero-shot video summarization framework that bridges large language models with structured semantic reasoning. A small subset of human annotations is converted into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yuanli Wu , Long Zhang , Yue Du , Bin Li

When it comes to deploying deep vision models, the behavior of these systems must be explicable to ensure confidence in their reliability and fairness. A common approach to evaluate deep learning models is to build a labeled test set with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jinqi Luo , Zhaoning Wang , Chen Henry Wu , Dong Huang , Fernando De la Torre

Language-queried audio source separation (LASS) is a new paradigm for computational auditory scene analysis (CASA). LASS aims to separate a target sound from an audio mixture given a natural language query, which provides a natural and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Xubo Liu , Qiuqiang Kong , Yan Zhao , Haohe Liu , Yi Yuan , Yuzhuo Liu , Rui Xia , Yuxuan Wang , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Audio captioning is a multi-modal task, focusing on using natural language for describing the contents of general audio. Most audio captioning methods are based on deep neural networks, employing an encoder-decoder scheme and a dataset with…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Emre Çakır , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen