Text to Audio Retrieval

AudioCaps is a dataset of sounds with event descriptions that was introduced for the task of audio captioning, with sounds sourced from the AudioSet dataset. Annotators were provided the audio tracks together with category hints (and with additional video hints if needed). Source: Audio Retrieval with Natural Language Queries Image source: https://audiocaps.github.io/

Clotho is an audio captioning dataset, consisting of 4981 audio samples, and each audio sample has five captions (a total of 24 905 captions). Audio samples are of 15 to 30 s duration and captions are eight to 20 words long. Source: https://zenodo.org/record/3490684 Image Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09387

We propose Localized Narratives, a new form of multimodal image annotations connecting vision and language. We ask annotators to describe an image with their voice while simultaneously hovering their mouse over the region they are describing. Since the voice and the mouse pointer are synchronized, we can localize every single word in the description. This dense visual grounding takes the form of a mouse trace segment per word and is unique to our data. We annotated 849k images with Localized Narratives: the whole COCO, Flickr30k, and ADE20K datasets, and 671k images of Open Images, all of which we make publicly available. We provide an extensive analysis of these annotations showing they are diverse, accurate, and efficient to produce. We also demonstrate their utility on the application of controlled image captioning.

A ChatGPT-Assisted Weakly-Labelled Audio Captioning Dataset for Audio-Language Multimodal Research.

We introduce a new audio dataset called SoundDescs that can be used for tasks such as text to audio retrieval, audio captioning etc. This dataset contains 32,979 pairs of audio files and text descriptions. There are 23 categories found in SoundDescs including but not limited to nature, clocks, fire etc. SoundDescs can be downloaded from here and retrieval results for this dataset can be found in the associated paper Audio Retrieval with Natural Language Queries: A Benchmark Study.