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20202026
most citedResource-Efficient Reference-Free Evaluation of Audio Captions

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12 papers

cs.SD2026

Spatial Audio Question Answering and Reasoning on Dynamic Source Movements

Arvind Krishna Sridhar, Yinyi Guo, Erik Visser

Spatial audio understanding aims to enable machines to interpret complex auditory scenes, particularly when sound sources move over time. In this work, we study Spatial Audio Quest…

cs.MM2026

Proactive Conversational Assistant for a Procedural Manual Task based on Audio and IMU

Rehana Mahfuz, Yinyi Guo, Erik Visser +1

Real-time conversational assistants for procedural manual tasks often depend on video input, which can be computationally expensive and compromise user privacy. For the first time,…

eess.AS2026

Event-Grounded Question Answering over Long Audio via Structured Retrieval

Kartik Hegde, Arvind Krishna Sridhar, Naveen Vakada +2

Answering natural-language questions over multi-hour audio requires reliable event recognition, temporal grounding, and efficient retrieval. We present LA-RAG (Long Audio Retrieval…

cs.SD2025

Spatial Audio Motion Understanding and Reasoning

Arvind Krishna Sridhar, Yinyi Guo, Erik Visser

Spatial audio reasoning enables machines to interpret auditory scenes by understanding events and their spatial attributes. In this work, we focus on spatial audio understanding wi…

eess.AS2025

Aligning Audio Captions with Human Preferences

Kartik Hegde, Rehana Mahfuz, Yinyi Guo +1

Current audio captioning relies on supervised learning with paired audio-caption data, which is costly to curate and may not reflect human preferences in real-world scenarios. To a…

eess.AS2024

Comprehensive Audio Query Handling System with Integrated Expert Models and Contextual Understanding

Vakada Naveen, Arvind Krishna Sridhar, Yinyi Guo +1

This paper presents a comprehensive chatbot system designed to handle a wide range of audio-related queries by integrating multiple specialized audio processing models. The propose…

cs.MM2024★ 1 cited

Resource-Efficient Reference-Free Evaluation of Audio Captions

Rehana Mahfuz, Yinyi Guo, Erik Visser

To establish the trustworthiness of systems that automatically generate text captions for audio, images and video, existing reference-free metrics rely on large pretrained models w…

cs.SD2024

Enhancing Temporal Understanding in Audio Question Answering for Large Audio Language Models

Arvind Krishna Sridhar, Yinyi Guo, Erik Visser

The Audio Question Answering (AQA) task includes audio event classification, audio captioning, and open-ended reasoning. Recently, AQA has garnered attention due to the advent of L…

cs.CL2023

Parameter Efficient Audio Captioning With Faithful Guidance Using Audio-text Shared Latent Representation

Arvind Krishna Sridhar, Yinyi Guo, Erik Visser +1

There has been significant research on developing pretrained transformer architectures for multimodal-to-text generation tasks. Albeit performance improvements, such models are fre…

cs.MM2023

Detecting False Alarms and Misses in Audio Captions

Rehana Mahfuz, Yinyi Guo, Arvind Krishna Sridhar +1

Metrics to evaluate audio captions simply provide a score without much explanation regarding what may be wrong in case the score is low. Manual human intervention is needed to find…

cs.MM2022

Improving Audio Captioning Using Semantic Similarity Metrics

Rehana Mahfuz, Yinyi Guo, Erik Visser

Audio captioning quality metrics which are typically borrowed from the machine translation and image captioning areas measure the degree of overlap between predicted tokens and gol…

cs.LG2020

Incremental Learning Algorithm for Sound Event Detection

Eunjeong Koh, Fatemeh Saki, Yinyi Guo +2

This paper presents a new learning strategy for the Sound Event Detection (SED) system to tackle the issues of i) knowledge migration from a pre-trained model to a new target model…