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Recent deep learning approaches have achieved impressive performance on visual sound separation tasks. However, these approaches are mostly built on appearance and optical flow like motion feature representations, which exhibit limited…
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Detecting sound source objects within visual observation is important for autonomous robots to comprehend surrounding environments. Since sounding objects have a large variety with different appearances in our living environments, labeling…
Computer vision is increasingly effective at segmenting objects in images and videos; however, scene effects related to the objects -- shadows, reflections, generated smoke, etc -- are typically overlooked. Identifying such scene effects…
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