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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

Automated audio captioning is a task that generates textual descriptions for audio content, and recent studies have explored using visual information to enhance captioning quality. However, current methods often fail to effectively fuse…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Kyeongha Rho , Hyeongkeun Lee , Valentio Iverson , Joon Son Chung

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

Language-vision models like CLIP have made significant strides in vision tasks, such as zero-shot image classification (ZSIC). However, generating specific and expressive visual descriptions remains challenging; descriptions produced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Michael Ogezi , Bradley Hauer , Grzegorz Kondrak

Most image captioning models are autoregressive, i.e. they generate each word by conditioning on previously generated words, which leads to heavy latency during inference. Recently, non-autoregressive decoding has been proposed in machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Longteng Guo , Jing Liu , Xinxin Zhu , Xingjian He , Jie Jiang , Hanqing Lu

We live in a rich and varied acoustic world, which is experienced by individuals or communities as a soundscape. Computational auditory scene analysis, disentangling acoustic scenes by detecting and classifying events, focuses on objective…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Yuanbo Hou , Qiaoqiao Ren , Andrew Mitchell , Wenwu Wang , Jian Kang , Tony Belpaeme , Dick Botteldooren

Despite significant progress in image captioning, generating accurate and descriptive captions remains a long-standing challenge. In this study, we propose Attention-Guided Image Captioning (AGIC), which amplifies salient visual regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 L. D. M. S. Sai Teja , Ashok Urlana , Pruthwik Mishra

Large pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have shown great potential in learning representations that are transferable across a wide range of downstream tasks. Different from the traditional representation learning that is based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Kaiyang Zhou , Jingkang Yang , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) aims to develop systems capable of describing an audio recording using a textual sentence. In contrast, Audio-Text Retrieval (ATR) systems seek to find the best matching audio recording(s) for a given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Etienne Labbé , Thomas Pellegrini , Julien Pinquier

Automated Audio captioning (AAC) is a cross-modal translation task that aims to use natural language to describe the content of an audio clip. As shown in the submissions received for Task 6 of the DCASE 2021 Challenges, this problem has…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Xubo Liu , Qiushi Huang , Xinhao Mei , Tom Ko , H Lilian Tang , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Currently, low-light conditions present a significant challenge for machine cognition. In this paper, rather than optimizing models by assuming that human and machine cognition are correlated, we use zero-reference low-light enhancement to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Igor Morawski , Kai He , Shusil Dangi , Winston H. Hsu

In recent years, advancements in representation learning and language models have propelled Automated Captioning (AC) to new heights, enabling the generation of human-level descriptions. Leveraging these advancements, we propose AVCap, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Jongsuk Kim , Jiwon Shin , Junmo Kim

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

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

While Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have advanced audio captioning, robust evaluation remains difficult. Reference-based metrics are expensive and often fail to assess acoustic fidelity, while Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Insung Lee , Taeyoung Jeong , Haejun Yoo , Du-Seong Chang , Myoung-Wan Koo

Automatic music captioning, which generates natural language descriptions for given music tracks, holds significant potential for enhancing the understanding and organization of large volumes of musical data. Despite its importance,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-01 SeungHeon Doh , Keunwoo Choi , Jongpil Lee , Juhan Nam

Most current captioning systems use language models trained on data from specific settings, such as image-based captioning via Amazon Mechanical Turk, limiting their ability to generalize to other modality distributions and contexts. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Ariel Shaulov , Tal Shaharabany , Eitan Shaar , Gal Chechik , Lior Wolf

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

Instruction tuning of large vision-language models (LVLMs) increasingly depends on massive multimodal corpora, yet these datasets contain samples with substantial redundancy, low visual dependency, and highly imbalanced coverage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shristi Das Biswas , Kaushik Roy

Autoregressive next-token prediction with the Transformer decoder has become a de facto standard in large language models (LLMs), achieving remarkable success in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at scale. Extending this paradigm to audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Shu-wen Yang , Byeonggeun Kim , Kuan-Po Huang , Qingming Tang , Huy Phan , Bo-Ru Lu , Harsha Sundar , Shalini Ghosh , Hung-yi Lee , Chieh-Chi Kao , Chao Wang