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The objective of this paper is an automatic Audio Description (AD) model that ingests movies and outputs AD in text form. Generating high-quality movie AD is challenging due to the dependency of the descriptions on context, and the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Tengda Han , Max Bain , Arsha Nagrani , Gül Varol , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Audio Descriptions (ADs) convey essential on-screen information, allowing visually impaired audiences to follow videos. To be effective, ADs must form a coherent sequence that helps listeners to visualise the unfolding scene, rather than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Eshika Khandelwal , Junyu Xie , Tengda Han , Max Bain , Arsha Nagrani , Andrew Zisserman , Gül Varol , Makarand Tapaswi

Audio Description (AD) is the task of generating descriptions of visual content, at suitable time intervals, for the benefit of visually impaired audiences. For movies, this presents notable challenges -- AD must occur only during existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Tengda Han , Max Bain , Arsha Nagrani , Gül Varol , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

The Audio Description (AD) task aims to generate descriptions of visual elements for visually impaired individuals to help them access long-form video content, like movies. With video feature, text, character bank and context information as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Hanlin Wang , Zhan Tong , Kecheng Zheng , Yujun Shen , Limin Wang

Audio Description is a narrated commentary designed to aid vision-impaired audiences in perceiving key visual elements in a video. While short-form video understanding has advanced rapidly, a solution for maintaining coherent long-term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Adrienne Deganutti , Simon Hadfield , Andrew Gilbert

Movie Audio Description (AD) aims to narrate visual content during dialogue-free segments, particularly benefiting blind and visually impaired (BVI) audiences. Compared with general video captioning, AD demands plot-relevant narration with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xiaojun Ye , Chun Wang , Yiren Song , Sheng Zhou , Liangcheng Li , Jiajun Bu

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

Audio Description (AD) plays a pivotal role as an application system aimed at guaranteeing accessibility in multimedia content, which provides additional narrations at suitable intervals to describe visual elements, catering specifically to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Seon-Ho Lee , Jue Wang , David Fan , Zhikang Zhang , Linda Liu , Xiang Hao , Vimal Bhat , Xinyu Li

Generating Audio Description (AD) for movies is a challenging task that requires fine-grained visual understanding and an awareness of the characters and their names. Currently, visual language models for AD generation are limited by a lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Tengda Han , Max Bain , Arsha Nagrani , Gül Varol , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Audio Descriptions (AD) are essential for making visual content accessible to individuals with visual impairments. Recent works have shown a promising step towards automating AD, but they have been limited to describing high-quality movie…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Lipisha Chaudhary , Trisha Mittal , Subhadra Gopalakrishnan , Ifeoma Nwogu , Jaclyn Pytlarz

Audio Description (AD) provides linguistic descriptions of movies and allows visually impaired people to follow a movie along with their peers. Such descriptions are by design mainly visual and thus naturally form an interesting data source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Anna Rohrbach , Atousa Torabi , Marcus Rohrbach , Niket Tandon , Christopher Pal , Hugo Larochelle , Aaron Courville , Bernt Schiele

The development of Audio Description (AD) has been a pivotal step forward in making video content more accessible and inclusive. Traditionally, AD production has demanded a considerable amount of skilled labor, while existing automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Peng Chu , Jiang Wang , Andre Abrantes

Our objective is to generate Audio Descriptions (ADs) for both movies and TV series in a training-free manner. We use the power of off-the-shelf Visual-Language Models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), and develop visual and text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Junyu Xie , Tengda Han , Max Bain , Arsha Nagrani , Gül Varol , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

We proposed Audio Difference Captioning (ADC) as a new extension task of audio captioning for describing the semantic differences between input pairs of similar but slightly different audio clips. The ADC solves the problem that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Daisuke Niizumi , Noboru Harada , Kunio Kashino

Audio captioning aims at generating natural language descriptions for audio clips automatically. Existing audio captioning models have shown promising improvement in recent years. However, these models are mostly trained via maximum…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Jianyuan Sun , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Audio descriptions (ADs) function as acoustic commentaries designed to assist blind persons and persons with visual impairments in accessing digital media content on television and in movies, among other settings. As an accessibility…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yingqiang Gao , Lukas Fischer , Alexa Lintner , Sarah Ebling

Audio description (AD) makes video content accessible to blind and low-vision (BLV) audiences, but producing high-quality descriptions is resource-intensive. Automated AD offers scalability, and prior studies show human-in-the-loop editing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Lana Do , Shasta Ihorn , Charity Pitcher-Cooper , Juvenal Francisco Barajas , Gio Jung , Xuan Duy Anh Nguyen , Sanjay Mirani , Ilmi Yoon

Automated audio captioning is a cross-modal translation task for describing the content of audio clips with natural language sentences. This task has attracted increasing attention and substantial progress has been made in recent years.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Jianyuan Sun , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Audio descriptions (ADs) narrate important visual details in movies, enabling Blind and Low Vision (BLV) users to understand narratives and appreciate visual details. Existing works in automatic AD generation mostly focus on few-second…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Divy Kala , Eshika Khandelwal , Makarand Tapaswi

We present MM-Narrator, a novel system leveraging GPT-4 with multimodal in-context learning for the generation of audio descriptions (AD). Unlike previous methods that primarily focused on downstream fine-tuning with short video clips,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Chaoyi Zhang , Kevin Lin , Zhengyuan Yang , Jianfeng Wang , Linjie Li , Chung-Ching Lin , Zicheng Liu , Lijuan Wang
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