What, When, and How: Audio Description as Constrained Global Optimization

arXiv:2609.30121 · cs.CL, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Code: https://github.com/carltonnorthern/nicknames

Terminology

• Audio Description — 30× in this paper
• Alignment — 21× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• European Conference on Computer Vision — 2× in this paper
• Hybrid System — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Conference on Computer Vision — 2× in this paper
• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 1× in this paper
• Contrastive Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Few-Shot Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• In Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference — 1× in this paper
• Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing — 1× in this paper
• Mixed-Integer Linear Program (MILP) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Named Entity Recognition — 1× in this paper
• Objective Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Training-Free Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Visual Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• More than a Moment: Towards Coherent Sequences of Audio Descriptions
• REFRAMED: Towards Realistic Audio Description Generation for Movies
• FocusedAD: Character-centric Movie Audio Description

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