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Localizing visual sounds consists on locating the position of objects that emit sound within an image. It is a growing research area with potential applications in monitoring natural and urban environments, such as wildlife migration and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Ho-Hsiang Wu , Magdalena Fuentes , Prem Seetharaman , Juan Pablo Bello

For humans, object detection, recognition, and tracking are innate. These provide the ability for human to perceive their environment and objects within their environment. This ability however doesn't translate well in computers. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Shiyao Chen , Dale Chen-Song

In audio-visual navigation (AVN), an intelligent agent needs to navigate to a constantly sound-making object in complex 3D environments based on its audio and visual perceptions. While existing methods attempt to improve the navigation…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Shunqi Mao , Chaoyi Zhang , Heng Wang , Weidong Cai

Perceiving a scene most fully requires all the senses. Yet modeling how objects look and sound is challenging: most natural scenes and events contain multiple objects, and the audio track mixes all the sound sources together. We propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Ruohan Gao , Rogerio Feris , Kristen Grauman

Recent advances in multimodal LLMs, have led to several video-text models being proposed for critical video-related tasks. However, most of the previous works support visual input only, essentially muting the audio signal in the video. Few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shivprasad Sagare , Hemachandran S , Kinshuk Sarabhai , Prashant Ullegaddi , Rajeshkumar SA

We introduce a state-of-the-art audio-visual on-screen sound separation system which is capable of learning to separate sounds and associate them with on-screen objects by looking at in-the-wild videos. We identify limitations of previous…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Efthymios Tzinis , Scott Wisdom , Tal Remez , John R. Hershey

Attributes of sound inherent to objects can provide valuable cues to learn rich representations for object detection and tracking. Furthermore, the co-occurrence of audiovisual events in videos can be exploited to localize objects over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Francisco Rivera Valverde , Juana Valeria Hurtado , Abhinav Valada

Humans use multiple senses to comprehend the environment. Vision and language are two of the most vital senses since they allow us to easily communicate our thoughts and perceive the world around us. There has been a lot of interest in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Thong Nguyen , Yi Bin , Junbin Xiao , Leigang Qu , Yicong Li , Jay Zhangjie Wu , Cong-Duy Nguyen , See-Kiong Ng , Luu Anh Tuan

Substantial research has been done in saliency modeling to develop intelligent machines that can perceive and interpret their surroundings. But existing models treat videos as merely image sequences excluding any audio information, unable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-27 Maryam Qamar Butt , Anis Ur Rahman

Real-world sound scenes consist of time-varying collections of sound sources, each generating characteristic sound events that are mixed together in audio recordings. The association of these constituent sound events with their mixture and…

Humans have an incredible ability to process and understand information from multiple sources such as images, video, text, and speech. Recent success of deep neural networks has enabled us to develop algorithms which give machines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Dheeraj Peri , Shagan Sah , Raymond Ptucha

Many species have evolved advanced non-visual perception while artificial systems fall behind. Radar and ultrasound complement camera-based vision but they are often too costly and complex to set up for very limited information gain. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Jesper Haahr Christensen , Sascha Hornauer , Stella Yu

Can we ask computers to recognize what we see from brain signals alone? Our paper seeks to utilize the knowledge learnt in the visual domain by popular pre-trained vision models and use it to teach a recurrent model being trained on brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Pranay Mukherjee , Abhirup Das , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Partha Pratim Roy

Human auditory perception is compositional in nature -- we identify auditory streams from auditory scenes with multiple sound events. However, such auditory scenes are typically represented using clip-level representations that do not…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Sripathi Sridhar , Mark Cartwright

Detection of face forgery videos remains a formidable challenge in the field of digital forensics, especially the generalization to unseen datasets and common perturbations. In this paper, we tackle this issue by leveraging the synergy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yachao Liang , Min Yu , Gang Li , Jianguo Jiang , Boquan Li , Feng Yu , Ning Zhang , Xiang Meng , Weiqing Huang

Robots coexisting with humans in their environment and performing services for them need the ability to interact with them. One particular requirement for such robots is that they are able to understand spatial relations and can place…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Oier Mees , Alp Emek , Johan Vertens , Wolfram Burgard

As the intermediate-level representations bridging the two levels, structured representations of visual scenes, such as visual relationships between pairwise objects, have been shown to not only benefit compositional models in learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Meng-Jiun Chiou

We present a multimodal framework to learn general audio representations from videos. Existing contrastive audio representation learning methods mainly focus on using the audio modality alone during training. In this work, we show that…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Luyu Wang , Pauline Luc , Adria Recasens , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Aaron van den Oord

Humans learn language by interaction with their environment and listening to other humans. It should also be possible for computational models to learn language directly from speech but so far most approaches require text. We improve on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Danny Merkx , Stefan L. Frank , Mirjam Ernestus

Dashboard cameras capture a tremendous amount of driving scene video each day. These videos are purposefully coupled with vehicle sensing data, such as from the speedometer and inertial sensors, providing an additional sensing modality for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Seokju Lee , Junsik Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh , Yongseop Jeong , Donggeun Yoo , Stephen Lin , In So Kweon