Detecting False Alarms and Misses in Audio Captions

Rehana Mahfuz, Yinyi Guo, Arvind Krishna Sridhar, Erik Visser

Abstract: Metrics to evaluate audio captions simply provide a score without much explanation regarding what may be wrong in case the score is low. Manual human intervention is needed to find any shortcomings of the caption. In this work, we introduce a metric which automatically identifies the shortcomings of an audio caption by detecting the misses and false alarms in a candidate caption with respect to a reference caption, and reports the recall, precision and F-score. Such a metric is very useful in profiling the deficiencies of an audio captioning model, which is a milestone towards improving the quality of audio captions.