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

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-24 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-09-24 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-25

Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-09-25

Abstract

Audio Description (AD) makes movies accessible to blind and visually impaired audiences by narrating visual information in gaps between dialogue. Existing automatic AD systems largely treat generation as a local video-to-text problem, assuming that the content to describe and its temporal location are already provided. Realistic AD instead requires coupled decisions about what visual information i

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