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Text-to-video generation has evolved rapidly in recent years, delivering remarkable results. Training typically relies on video-caption paired data, which plays a crucial role in enhancing generation performance. However, current video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Tiehan Fan , Kepan Nan , Rui Xie , Penghao Zhou , Zhenheng Yang , Chaoyou Fu , Xiang Li , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

The goal of text-to-image synthesis is to generate a visually realistic image that matches a given text description. In practice, the captions annotated by humans for the same image have large variance in terms of contents and the choice of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Hui Ye , Xiulong Yang , Martin Takac , Rajshekhar Sunderraman , Shihao Ji

Existing video captioning approaches typically require to first sample video frames from a decoded video and then conduct a subsequent process (e.g., feature extraction and/or captioning model learning). In this pipeline, manual frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yaojie Shen , Xin Gu , Kai Xu , Heng Fan , Longyin Wen , Libo Zhang

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

Multimodal large language models have fueled progress in image captioning. These models, fine-tuned on vast image datasets, exhibit a deep understanding of semantic concepts. In this work, we show that this ability can be re-purposed for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Hugo Malard , Michel Olvera , Stéphane Lathuiliere , Slim Essid

The comic domain is rapidly advancing with the development of single- and multi-page analysis and synthesis models. Recent benchmarks and datasets have been introduced to support and assess models' capabilities in tasks such as detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Emanuele Vivoli , Niccolò Biondi , Marco Bertini , Dimosthenis Karatzas

This paper presents a method for selecting appropriate synthetic speech samples from a given large text-to-speech (TTS) dataset as supplementary training data for an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. We trained a neural network,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Shuo Liu , Leda Sarı , Chunyang Wu , Gil Keren , Yuan Shangguan , Jay Mahadeokar , Ozlem Kalinli

AudioSet is a widely used benchmark in the audio research community and has significantly advanced various audio-related tasks. However, persistent issues with label accuracy and completeness remain critical bottlenecks that limit…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yulin Sun , Qisheng Xu , Yi Su , Qian Zhu , Yong Dou , Xinwang Liu , Kele Xu

We introduce Diffusion-based Audio Captioning (DAC), a non-autoregressive diffusion model tailored for diverse and efficient audio captioning. Although existing captioning models relying on language backbones have achieved remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Manjie Xu , Chenxing Li , Xinyi Tu , Yong Ren , Ruibo Fu , Wei Liang , Dong Yu

Detailed captions that accurately reflect the characteristics of a music piece can enrich music databases and drive forward research in music AI. This paper introduces a multi-task music captioning model, SonicVerse, that integrates caption…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Anuradha Chopra , Abhinaba Roy , Dorien Herremans

Despite recent advancements, audio-text models still lag behind their image-text counterparts in scale and performance. In this paper, we propose to improve both the data scale and the training procedure of audio-text contrastive models.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Ge Zhu , Jordan Darefsky , Zhiyao Duan

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

Training models to high-end performance requires availability of large labeled datasets, which are expensive to get. The goal of our work is to automatically synthesize labeled datasets that are relevant for a downstream task. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Amlan Kar , Aayush Prakash , Ming-Yu Liu , Eric Cameracci , Justin Yuan , Matt Rusiniak , David Acuna , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

The diversity of speaker profiles in multi-speaker TTS systems is a crucial aspect of its performance, as it measures how many different speaker profiles TTS systems could possibly synthesize. However, this important aspect is often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Jie Pu , Yixiong Meng , Oguz Elibol

Generative models guided by text prompts are increasingly becoming more popular. However, no text-to-MIDI models currently exist due to the lack of a captioned MIDI dataset. This work aims to enable research that combines LLMs with symbolic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Jan Melechovsky , Abhinaba Roy , Dorien Herremans

Video captioning generate a sentence that describes the video content. Existing methods always require a number of captions (\eg, 10 or 20) per video to train the model, which is quite costly. In this work, we explore the possibility of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Ping Li , Tao Wang , Xinkui Zhao , Xianghua Xu , Mingli Song

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

Automatic Audio Captioning (AAC) is the task that aims to describe an audio signal using natural language. AAC systems take as input an audio signal and output a free-form text sentence, called a caption. Evaluating such systems is not…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Etienne Labbé , Thomas Pellegrini , Julien Pinquier

Artificial speech synthesis has made a great leap in terms of naturalness as recent Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems are capable of producing speech with similar quality to human recordings. However, not all speaking styles are easy to model:…

While large audio-language models have advanced open-ended audio understanding, they still fall short of nuanced human-level comprehension. This gap persists largely because current benchmarks, limited by data annotations and evaluation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Yadong Niu , Tianzi Wang , Heinrich Dinkel , Xingwei Sun , Jiahao Zhou , Gang Li , Jizhong Liu , Xunying Liu , Junbo Zhang , Jian Luan