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Advances in multimodal large language models enable automatic video narration and question answering (VQA), offering scalable alternatives to labor-intensive, human-authored audio descriptions (ADs) for blind and low vision (BLV) viewers.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Maryam Cheema , Sina Elahimanesh , Pooyan Fazli , Hasti Seifi

Audio description (AD) makes video content accessible to millions of blind and low vision (BLV) users. However, creating high-quality AD involves a trade-off between the precision of human-crafted descriptions and the efficiency of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Maryam Cheema , Sina Elahimanesh , Samuel Martin , Pooyan Fazli , Hasti Seifi

Digital video is central to communication, education, and entertainment, but without audio description (AD), blind and low-vision users are excluded. While crowdsourced platforms and vision-language models (VLMs) expand AD production,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Lana Do , Gio Jung , Juvenal Francisco Barajas , Andrew Taylor Scott , Shasta Ihorn , Alexander Mario Blum , Vassilis Athitsos , Ilmi Yoon

In the progress of industrial anomaly detection, general anomaly detection (GAD) is an emerging trend and also the ultimate goal. Unlike the conventional single- and multi-class AD, general AD aims to train a general AD model that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xincheng Yao , Zefeng Qian , Chao Shi , Jiayang Song , Chongyang Zhang

Refereeing is vital in sports, where fair, accurate, and explainable decisions are fundamental. While intelligent assistant technologies are being widely adopted in soccer refereeing, current AI-assisted approaches remain preliminary.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zi Meng , Wanli Song , Yi Hu , Jiayuan Rao , Gang Chen

Soccer video understanding has motivated the creation of datasets for tasks such as temporal action localization, spatiotemporal action detection (STAD), or multiobject tracking (MOT). The annotation of structured sequences of events (who…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Jeremie Ochin , Raphael Chekroun , Bogdan Stanciulescu , Sotiris Manitsaris

Understanding and analyzing video actions are essential for producing insightful and contextualized descriptions, especially for video-based applications like intelligent monitoring and autonomous systems. The proposed work introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Lakshita Agarwal , Bindu Verma

Despite the recent emergence of video captioning models, how to generate vivid, fine-grained video descriptions based on the background knowledge (i.e., long and informative commentary about the domain-specific scenes with appropriate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Ji Qi , Jifan Yu , Teng Tu , Kunyu Gao , Yifan Xu , Xinyu Guan , Xiaozhi Wang , Yuxiao Dong , Bin Xu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Jie Tang , Weidong Guo , Hui Liu , Yu Xu

Massive multi-modality datasets play a significant role in facilitating the success of large video-language models. However, current video-language datasets primarily provide text descriptions for visual frames, considering audio to be…

Development of multimodal interactive systems is hindered by the lack of rich, multimodal (text, images) conversational data, which is needed in large quantities for LLMs. Previous approaches augment textual dialogues with retrieved images,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Hossein Aboutalebi , Hwanjun Song , Yusheng Xie , Arshit Gupta , Justin Sun , Hang Su , Igor Shalyminov , Nikolaos Pappas , Siffi Singh , Saab Mansour

Standard video and movie description tasks abstract away from person identities, thus failing to link identities across sentences. We propose a multi-sentence Identity-Aware Video Description task, which overcomes this limitation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jae Sung Park , Trevor Darrell , Anna Rohrbach

Soccer has a considerable market share of the global sports industry, and the interest in viewing videos from soccer games continues to grow. In this respect, it is important to provide game summaries and highlights of the main game events.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Cise Midoglu , Steven A. Hicks , Vajira Thambawita , Tomas Kupka , Pål Halvorsen

Video content is present in an ever-increasing number of fields, both scientific and commercial. Sports, particularly soccer, is one of the industries that has invested the most in the field of video analytics, due to the massive popularity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Melissa Sanabria , Frédéric Precioso , Pierre-Alexandre Mattei , Thomas Menguy

Sound designers search for sounds in large sound effects libraries using aspects such as sound class or visual context. However, the metadata needed for such search is often missing or incomplete, and requires significant manual effort to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Sripathi Sridhar , Prem Seetharaman , Oriol Nieto , Mark Cartwright , Justin Salamon

Generating accurate descriptions of human actions in videos remains a challenging task for video captioning models. Existing approaches often struggle to capture fine-grained motion details, resulting in vague or semantically inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Guorui Song , Guocun Wang , Zhe Huang , Jing Lin , Xuefei Zhe , Jian Li , Haoqian Wang

We explore a new task for audio-visual-language modeling called fine-grained audible video description (FAVD). It aims to provide detailed textual descriptions for the given audible videos, including the appearance and spatial locations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Xuyang Shen , Dong Li , Jinxing Zhou , Zhen Qin , Bowen He , Xiaodong Han , Aixuan Li , Yuchao Dai , Lingpeng Kong , Meng Wang , Yu Qiao , Yiran Zhong

Automated Audio Captioning is a cross-modal task, generating natural language descriptions to summarize the audio clips' sound events. However, grounding the actual sound events in the given audio based on its corresponding caption has not…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Xuenan Xu , Heinrich Dinkel , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

The Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) task aims to describe an audio signal using natural language. To evaluate machine-generated captions, the metrics should take into account audio events, acoustic scenes, paralinguistics, signal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Satvik Dixit , Soham Deshmukh , Bhiksha Raj

Increasing amount of research has shed light on machine perception of audio events, most of which concerns detection and classification tasks. However, human-like perception of audio scenes involves not only detecting and classifying audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Mengyue Wu , Heinrich Dinkel , Kai Yu

Automatically describing video content with text description is challenging but important task, which has been attracting a lot of attention in computer vision community. Previous works mainly strive for the accuracy of the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Huanhou Xiao , Jinglun Shi