Audio Captioning Based on Transformer and Pre-Trained CNN

Kun Chen; Yusong Wu; Ziyue Wang; Xuan Zhang; Fudong Nian; Shengchen Li; Xi Shao

Audio Captioning Based on Transformer and Pre-Trained CNN

Kun Chen
, Yusong Wu
, Ziyue Wang
, Xuan Zhang
, Fudong Nian
, Shengchen Li
, Xi Shao

Department of Intelligent Science

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Anhui University
Tencent

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Abstract

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events 2020 Workshop (DCASE2020)
Pages	21-25
Publication status	Published - 11 Feb 2020

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