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Humans can robustly recognize and localize objects by using visual and/or auditory cues. While machines are able to do the same with visual data already, less work has been done with sounds. This work develops an approach for scene…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Dengxin Dai , Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Jiri Matas , Luc Van Gool

Purpose: Surgical scene understanding is key to advancing computer-aided and intelligent surgical systems. Current approaches predominantly rely on visual data or end-to-end learning, which limits fine-grained contextual modeling. This work…

We present a unified model capable of simultaneously grounding both spoken language and non-speech sounds within a visual scene, addressing key limitations in current audio-visual grounding models. Existing approaches are typically limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hyeonggon Ryu , Seongyu Kim , Joon Son Chung , Arda Senocak

The images and sounds that we perceive undergo subtle but geometrically consistent changes as we rotate our heads. In this paper, we use these cues to solve a problem we call Sound Localization from Motion (SLfM): jointly estimating camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ziyang Chen , Shengyi Qian , Andrew Owens

Audio-visual source localization is a challenging task that aims to predict the location of visual sound sources in a video. Since collecting ground-truth annotations of sounding objects can be costly, a plethora of weakly-supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Shentong Mo , Pedro Morgado

Can we determine someone's geographic location purely from the sounds they hear? Are acoustic signals enough to localize within a country, state, or even city? We tackle the challenge of global-scale audio geolocation, formalize the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Mustafa Chasmai , Wuao Liu , Subhransu Maji , Grant Van Horn

Learning how objects sound from video is challenging, since they often heavily overlap in a single audio channel. Current methods for visually-guided audio source separation sidestep the issue by training with artificially mixed video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Ruohan Gao , Kristen Grauman

In this paper our objectives are, first, networks that can embed audio and visual inputs into a common space that is suitable for cross-modal retrieval; and second, a network that can localize the object that sounds in an image, given the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Relja Arandjelović , Andrew Zisserman

The objective of this work is to localize the sound sources in visual scenes. Existing audio-visual works employ contrastive learning by assigning corresponding audio-visual pairs from the same source as positives while randomly mismatched…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Arda Senocak , Hyeonggon Ryu , Junsik Kim , In So Kweon

Visual sound source separation aims at identifying sound components from a given sound mixture with the presence of visual cues. Prior works have demonstrated impressive results, but with the expense of large multi-stage architectures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Lingyu Zhu , Esa Rahtu

Binaural sound localization is usually considered a discrimination task, where interaural time (ITD) and level (ILD) disparities at pure frequency channels are utilized to identify a position of a sound source. In natural conditions…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-03-04 Wiktor Młynarski , Jürgen Jost

The sound of crashing waves, the roar of fast-moving cars -- sound conveys important information about the objects in our surroundings. In this work, we show that ambient sounds can be used as a supervisory signal for learning visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Andrew Owens , Jiajun Wu , Josh H. McDermott , William T. Freeman , Antonio Torralba

Urban noise maps and noise visualizations traditionally provide macroscopic representations of noise levels across cities. However, those representations fail at accurately gauging the sound perception associated with these sound…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Modan Tailleur , Pierre Aumond , Vincent Tourre , Mathieu Lagrange

Despite there being clear evidence for top-down (e.g., attentional) effects in biological spatial hearing, relatively few machine hearing systems exploit top-down model-based knowledge in sound localisation. This paper addresses this issue…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-08 Ning Ma , Jose A. Gonzalez , Guy J. Brown

Over the past few years, there has been a great deal of research on navigation tasks in indoor environments using deep reinforcement learning agents. Most of these tasks use only visual information in the form of first-person images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Haru Kondoh , Asako Kanezaki

Learning how to localize and separate individual object sounds in the audio channel of the video is a difficult task. Current state-of-the-art methods predict audio masks from artificially mixed spectrograms, known as Mix-and-Separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Tanzila Rahman , Leonid Sigal

Never having seen an object and heard its sound simultaneously, can the model still accurately localize its visual position from the input audio? In this work, we concentrate on the Audio-Visual Localization and Segmentation tasks but under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Yaoting Wang , Weisong Liu , Guangyao Li , Jian Ding , Di Hu , Xi Li

Leveraging temporal synchronization and association within sight and sound is an essential step towards robust localization of sounding objects. To this end, we propose a space-time memory network for sounding object localization in videos.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Sizhe Li , Yapeng Tian , Chenliang Xu

The objective of this work is to localize sound sources that are visible in a video without using manual annotations. Our key technical contribution is to show that, by training the network to explicitly discriminate challenging image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Honglie Chen , Weidi Xie , Triantafyllos Afouras , Arsha Nagrani , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Sound source localization is a typical and challenging task that predicts the location of sound sources in a video. Previous single-source methods mainly used the audio-visual association as clues to localize sounding objects in each image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Shentong Mo , Yapeng Tian