3 accepted papers
Audio captioning aims at describing acoustic scenes with natural language. Systems are currently evaluated by image captioning metrics CIDEr and SPICE. However, recent studies have highlighted a poor correlation of these metrics with human assessments. In this paper, we propose SPICE+, a modificatio…
Bandwidth extension has a long history in audio processing. While speech processing tools do not rely on side information, production-ready bandwidth extension tools of general audio signals rely on side information that has to be transmitted alongside the bitstream of the low frequency part, mostly…
Gathering information about the acoustic environment of urban areas is now possible and studied in many major cities in the world. Part of the research is to find ways to inform the citizen about its sound environment while ensuring her privacy.We study in this paper how this application can be cast…