LAVCap: LLM-based Audio-Visual Captioning using Optimal Transport

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Autores principales: Rho, Kyeongha, Lee, Hyeongkeun, Iverson, Valentio, Chung, Joon Son
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Publicado: 2025
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author Rho, Kyeongha
Lee, Hyeongkeun
Iverson, Valentio
Chung, Joon Son
author_facet Rho, Kyeongha
Lee, Hyeongkeun
Iverson, Valentio
Chung, Joon Son
contents 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 audio and visual data, missing important semantic cues from each modality. To address this, we introduce LAVCap, a large language model (LLM)-based audio-visual captioning framework that effectively integrates visual information with audio to improve audio captioning performance. LAVCap employs an optimal transport-based alignment loss to bridge the modality gap between audio and visual features, enabling more effective semantic extraction. Additionally, we propose an optimal transport attention module that enhances audio-visual fusion using an optimal transport assignment map. Combined with the optimal training strategy, experimental results demonstrate that each component of our framework is effective. LAVCap outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods on the AudioCaps dataset, without relying on large datasets or post-processing. Code is available at https://github.com/NAVER-INTEL-Co-Lab/gaudi-lavcap.
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spellingShingle LAVCap: LLM-based Audio-Visual Captioning using Optimal Transport
Rho, Kyeongha
Lee, Hyeongkeun
Iverson, Valentio
Chung, Joon Son
Multimedia
Artificial Intelligence
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
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 audio and visual data, missing important semantic cues from each modality. To address this, we introduce LAVCap, a large language model (LLM)-based audio-visual captioning framework that effectively integrates visual information with audio to improve audio captioning performance. LAVCap employs an optimal transport-based alignment loss to bridge the modality gap between audio and visual features, enabling more effective semantic extraction. Additionally, we propose an optimal transport attention module that enhances audio-visual fusion using an optimal transport assignment map. Combined with the optimal training strategy, experimental results demonstrate that each component of our framework is effective. LAVCap outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods on the AudioCaps dataset, without relying on large datasets or post-processing. Code is available at https://github.com/NAVER-INTEL-Co-Lab/gaudi-lavcap.
title LAVCap: LLM-based Audio-Visual Captioning using Optimal Transport
topic Multimedia
Artificial Intelligence
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09291