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We introduce SeeingSounds, a lightweight and modular framework for audio-to-image generation that leverages the interplay between audio, language, and vision-without requiring any paired audio-visual data or training on visual generative…

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) involves localizing target objects in 3D point clouds based on natural language. While prior work has made strides using textual descriptions, leveraging spoken language-known as Audio-based 3D Visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Duc Cao-Dinh , Khai Le-Duc , Anh Dao , Bach Phan Tat , Chris Ngo , Duy M. H. Nguyen , Nguyen X. Khanh , Thanh Nguyen-Tang

This paper presents a novel approach for the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task in continuous 3D environments, which requires an autonomous agent to follow natural language instructions in unseen environments. Existing end-to-end…

Recent years have seen embodied visual navigation advance in two distinct directions: (i) in equipping the AI agent to follow natural language instructions, and (ii) in making the navigable world multimodal, e.g., audio-visual navigation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Sudipta Paul , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Anoop Cherian

Few-shot audio-visual acoustics modeling seeks to synthesize the room impulse response in arbitrary locations with few-shot observations. To sufficiently exploit the provided few-shot data for accurate acoustic modeling, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Diwei Huang , Kunyang Lin , Peihao Chen , Qing Du , Mingkui Tan

Audio-visual navigation tasks require agents to locate and navigate toward continuously vocalizing targets using only visual observations and acoustic cues. However, existing methods mainly rely on simple feature concatenation or late…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shaohang Wu , Yinfeng Yu

Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) refers to an agent navigating to an object in an unseen environment, which is an ability often required in the accomplishment of complex tasks. While existing methods demonstrate proficiency in isolated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jiahua Pei , Yi Liu , Guoping Pan , Yuanhao Jiang , Houde Liu , Xueqian Wang

For robots to understand human instructions and perform meaningful tasks in the near future, it is important to develop learned models that comprehend referential language to identify common objects in real-world 3D scenes. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Junha Roh , Karthik Desingh , Ali Farhadi , Dieter Fox

What is a good visual representation for autonomous agents? We address this question in the context of semantic visual navigation, which is the problem of a robot finding its way through a complex environment to a target object, e.g. go to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Arsalan Mousavian , Alexander Toshev , Marek Fiser , Jana Kosecka , Ayzaan Wahid , James Davidson

This paper introduces SoundSculpt, a neural network designed to extract target sound fields from ambisonic recordings. SoundSculpt employs an ambisonic-in-ambisonic-out architecture and is conditioned on both spatial information (e.g.,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Tuochao Chen , D Shin , Hakan Erdogan , Sinan Hersek

Acoustic matching aims to re-synthesize an audio clip to sound as if it were recorded in a target acoustic environment. Existing methods assume access to paired training data, where the audio is observed in both source and target…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Arjun Somayazulu , Changan Chen , Kristen Grauman

Object goal navigation aims to navigate an agent to locations of a given object category in unseen environments. Classical methods explicitly build maps of environments and require extensive engineering while lacking semantic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Shizhe Chen , Thomas Chabal , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Object Goal Navigation requires a robot to find and navigate to an instance of a target object class in a previously unseen environment. Our framework incrementally builds a semantic map of the environment over time, and then repeatedly…

Advances in object tracking and acoustic beamforming are driving new capabilities in surveillance, human-computer interaction, and robotics. This work presents an embedded system that integrates deep learning-based tracking with beamforming…

Object-goal navigation in open-vocabulary settings requires agents to locate novel objects in unseen environments, yet existing approaches suffer from opaque decision-making processes and low success rate on locating unseen objects. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Wentao Xiang , Haokang Zhang , Tianhang Yang , Zedong Chu , Ruihang Chu , Shichao Xie , Yujian Yuan , Jian Sun , Zhining Gu , Junjie Wang , Xiaolong Wu , Mu Xu , Yujiu Yang

Understanding human instructions and accomplishing Vision-Language Navigation tasks in unknown environments is essential for robots. However, existing modular approaches heavily rely on the quality of training data and often exhibit poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yao Wang , Zhirui Sun , Wenzheng Chi , Baozhi Jia , Wenjun Xu , Jiankun Wang

Audiovisual embodied navigation enables robots to locate audio sources by dynamically integrating visual observations from onboard sensors with the auditory signals emitted by the target. The core challenge lies in effectively leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yinfeng Yu , Hailong Zhang , Meiling Zhu

This work studies the problem of object goal navigation which involves navigating to an instance of the given object category in unseen environments. End-to-end learning-based navigation methods struggle at this task as they are ineffective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Devendra Singh Chaplot , Dhiraj Gandhi , Abhinav Gupta , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

In this paper, we introduce a novel continual audio-visual sound separation task, aiming to continuously separate sound sources for new classes while preserving performance on previously learned classes, with the aid of visual guidance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Weiguo Pian , Yiyang Nan , Shijian Deng , Shentong Mo , Yunhui Guo , Yapeng Tian

Audiovisual scenes are pervasive in our daily life. It is commonplace for humans to discriminatively localize different sounding objects but quite challenging for machines to achieve class-aware sounding objects localization without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Di Hu , Yake Wei , Rui Qian , Weiyao Lin , Ruihua Song , Ji-Rong Wen