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Despite the impressive performance of deep learning models across diverse tasks, their complexity poses challenges for interpretation. This challenge is particularly evident for audio signals, where conveying interpretations becomes…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Francesco Paissan , Mirco Ravanelli , Cem Subakan

Neural networks are typically black-boxes that remain opaque with regards to their decision mechanisms. Several works in the literature have proposed post-hoc explanation methods to alleviate this issue. This paper proposes LMAC-TD, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Eleonora Mancini , Francesco Paissan , Mirco Ravanelli , Cem Subakan

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have achieved remarkable success in zero-shot learning (ZSL) by leveraging large-scale visual-text pair datasets. However, these methods often lack interpretability, as they compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiming Chen , Bowen Duan , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

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 zero-shot learning methods commonly build on features extracted from pre-trained models, e.g. video or audio classification models. However, existing benchmarks predate the popularization of large multi-modal models, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 David Kurzendörfer , Otniel-Bogdan Mercea , A. Sophia Koepke , Zeynep Akata

Zero-shot learning models are capable of classifying new classes by transferring knowledge from the seen classes using auxiliary information. While most of the existing zero-shot learning methods focused on single-label classification…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Duygu Dogan , Huang Xie , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

Zero-shot audio classification aims to recognize and classify a sound class that the model has never seen during training. This paper presents a novel approach for zero-shot audio classification using automatically generated sound attribute…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Xuenan Xu , Pingyue Zhang , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Mengyue Wu

Automatic pronunciation assessment is typically performed by acoustic models trained on audio-score pairs. Although effective, these systems provide only numerical scores, without the information needed to help learners understand their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Yu-Wen Chen , Melody Ma , Julia Hirschberg

We propose an instruction-following audio comprehension model that leverages the dialogue continuation ability of large language models (LLMs). Instead of directly generating target captions in training data, the proposed method trains a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Yusuke Fujita , Tomoya Mizumoto , Atsushi Kojima , Lianbo Liu , Yui Sudo

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

In this paper, we study zero-shot learning in audio classification through factored linear and nonlinear acoustic-semantic projections between audio instances and sound classes. Zero-shot learning in audio classification refers to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Huang Xie , Okko Räsänen , Tuomas Virtanen

Contrastive language-audio pre-training (CLAP) enables zero-shot (ZS) inference of audio and exhibits promising performance in several classification tasks. However, conventional audio representations are still crucial for many tasks where…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada , Masahiro Yasuda , Shunsuke Tsubaki , Keisuke Imoto

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 introduces a zero-shot sound event classification (ZS-SEC) method to identify sound events that have never occurred in training data. In our previous work, we proposed a ZS-SEC method using sound attribute vectors (SAVs), where a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yi-Han Lin , Xunquan Chen , Ryoichi Takashima , Tetsuya Takiguchi

While automated audio captioning (AAC) has made notable progress, traditional fully supervised AAC models still face two critical challenges: the need for expensive audio-text pair data for training and performance degradation when…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xiquan Li , Wenxi Chen , Ziyang Ma , Xuenan Xu , Yuzhe Liang , Zhisheng Zheng , Qiuqiang Kong , Xie Chen

This paper proposes a zero-shot learning approach for audio classification based on the textual information about class labels without any audio samples from target classes. We propose an audio classification system built on the bilinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Huang Xie , Tuomas Virtanen

Supervised learning methods can solve the given problem in the presence of a large set of labeled data. However, the acquisition of a dataset covering all the target classes typically requires manual labeling which is expensive and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Duygu Dogan , Huang Xie , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to train a model on seen classes and recognize unseen classes by knowledge transfer through shared auxiliary information. Recent studies reveal that documents from encyclopedias provide helpful auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiangyan Qu , Jing Yu , Jiamin Zhuang , Gaopeng Gou , Gang Xiong , Qi Wu

Advancements in audio neural networks have established state-of-the-art results on downstream audio tasks. However, the black-box structure of these models makes it difficult to interpret the information encoded in their internal audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Alice Zhang , Edison Thomaz , Lie Lu

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by aligning images with intermediate class semantics, like human-annotated concepts or class definitions. An emerging alternative leverages Large-scale Language Models (LLMs) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zihan Ye , Shreyank N Gowda , Shiming Chen , Yaochu Jin , Kaizhu Huang , Xiaobo Jin
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