4 papers
Enhancing Automated Audio Captioning via Large Language Models with Optimized Audio Encoding
Jizhong Liu, Gang Li, Junbo Zhang +5
Automated audio captioning (AAC) is an audio-to-text task to describe audio contents in natural language. Recently, the advancements in large language models (LLMs), with improveme…
Bridging Language Gaps in Audio-Text Retrieval
Zhiyong Yan, Heinrich Dinkel, Yongqing Wang +4
Audio-text retrieval is a challenging task, requiring the search for an audio clip or a text caption within a database. The predominant focus of existing research on English descri…
Scaling up masked audio encoder learning for general audio classification
Heinrich Dinkel, Zhiyong Yan, Yongqing Wang +3
Despite progress in audio classification, a generalization gap remains between speech and other sound domains, such as environmental sounds and music. Models trained for speech tas…
Streaming Audio Transformers for Online Audio Tagging
Heinrich Dinkel, Zhiyong Yan, Yongqing Wang +3
Transformers have emerged as a prominent model framework for audio tagging (AT), boasting state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on the widely-used Audioset dataset. However, their im…