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| license: |
| - other |
| pretty_name: MIAO dataset |
| tags: |
| - audio |
| - image |
| - multimodal |
| - onomatopoeia |
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| # 🐾 MIAO: Multimodal Image-Audio Onomatopoeia Dataset |
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| ## Dataset Summary |
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| **MIAO** is a multimodal dataset consisting of paired **sound event clips** and **onomatopoeic images**, which is designed to support research and development on multimodal correspondence between sounds and visual onomatopoeic expressions. |
| It can be used for a wide range of tasks, including cross-modal retrieval, multimodal representation learning, and generative modeling of sounds and images. |
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| ### Examples of onomatopoeic images |
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| <div style="display: flex; gap: 24px; justify-content: center; align-items: flex-start;"> |
| <div style="text-align: center;"> |
| <img src="sample/Chainsaw.png" alt="Chainsaw" width="300"> |
| <p style="margin-top: 0px;">Onomatopoeic image for "Chainsaw"</p> |
| </div> |
| <div style="text-align: center;"> |
| <img src="sample/Dog_barking.png" alt="Dog barking" width="300"> |
| <p style="margin-top: 0px;">Onomatopoeic image for "Dog barking"</p> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
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| ## Citation |
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| If you use this dataset, please cite the following paper: |
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| Keisuke Imoto, Yamato Kojima, and Takao Tsuchiya, "Audio-Image Cross-Modal Retrieval with Onomatopoeic Images," arXiv:2605.17509, 2026. |
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| ```bibtex |
| @article{imoto2026audio, |
| title={Audio-Image Cross-Modal Retrieval with Onomatopoeic Images}, |
| author={Imoto, Keisuke and Kojima, Yamato and Tsuchiya, Takao}, |
| journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.17509}, |
| year={2026} |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ## Dataset Overview |
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| | Data type | Source | \# sound event classes | \# per class | Total | |
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| | Audio | FSD50K (CC0 clips) | 50 | 12 clips | 600 clips | |
| | Image | Original images | 50 | 18 images | 900 images | |
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| The audio clips are organized into 12 audio sets. Each audio set contains one clip for each sound event class. |
| The images were created by 18 illustrators. Each illustrator created one onomatopoeic image for each sound event class after listening to the corresponding audio clip. |
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| ## Data Sources and Creation |
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| ### Audio |
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| The audio clips were selected from the **CC0-licensed subset of FSD50K**. |
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| ### Images |
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| The onomatopoeic images were created by 18 illustrators recruited through the 99designs platform. |
| Each illustrator listened to 50 sound event clips and created one onomatopoeic image for each sound event class. |
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| ## License |
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| MIAO contains audio files and image files with different licensing terms. |
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| ### Audio files |
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| The audio files are drawn from the CC0-licensed subset of FSD50K and are distributed under the same **CC0-1.0 license**. |
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| ### Image files |
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| The onomatopoeic image files are available under the following terms: |
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| - **Research use:** The image files may be used under the **MIT License** for research purposes. |
| - **Commercial use:** Commercial use of the image files requires a separate paid license. |
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| For commercial use of the image files, please contact: |
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| ```text |
| Keisuke Imoto |
| keisuke.imoto (at_mark) ieee.org |
