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Sound localization aims to find the source of the audio signal in the visual scene. However, it is labor-intensive to annotate the correlations between the signals sampled from the audio and visual modalities, thus making it difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yan-Bo Lin , Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Sound source localization (SSL) is the task of locating the source of sound within an image. Due to the lack of localization labels, the de facto standard in SSL has been to represent an image and audio as a single embedding vector each,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Inho Kim , Youngkil Song , Jicheol Park , Won Hwa Kim , Suha Kwak

During the performance of sound source localization which uses both visual and aural information, it presently remains unclear how much either image or sound modalities contribute to the result, i.e. do we need both image and sound for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Takashi Oya , Shohei Iwase , Ryota Natsume , Takahiro Itazuri , Shugo Yamaguchi , Shigeo Morishima

City-identification of videos aims to determine the likelihood of a video belonging to a set of cities. In this paper, we present an approach using only audio, thus we do not use any additional modality such as images, user-tags or…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Benjamin Elizalde , Guan-Lin Chao , Ming Zeng , Ian Lane

Sound source localization in visual scenes aims to localize objects emitting the sound in a given image. Recent works showing impressive localization performance typically rely on the contrastive learning framework. However, the random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Zengjie Song , Yuxi Wang , Junsong Fan , Tieniu Tan , Zhaoxiang Zhang

The goal of the multi-sound source localization task is to localize sound sources from the mixture individually. While recent multi-sound source localization methods have shown improved performance, they face challenges due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Dongjin Kim , Sung Jin Um , Sangmin Lee , Jung Uk Kim

Self-supervised sound source localization is usually challenged by the modality inconsistency. In recent studies, contrastive learning based strategies have shown promising to establish such a consistent correspondence between audio and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Tianyu Liu , Peng Zhang , Wei Huang , Yufei Zha , Tao You , Yanning Zhang

Video action recognition is a challenging but important task for understanding and discovering what the video does. However, acquiring annotations for a video is costly, and semi-supervised learning (SSL) has been studied to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Seokun Kang , Taehwan Kim

We present a simple yet effective self-supervised framework for audio-visual representation learning, to localize the sound source in videos. To understand what enables to learn useful representations, we systematically investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Jinxiang Liu , Chen Ju , Weidi Xie , Ya Zhang

This paper addresses the problem of localizing audio sources using binaural measurements. We propose a supervised formulation that simultaneously localizes multiple sources at different locations. The approach is intrinsically efficient…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Antoine Deleforge , Radu Horaud , Yoav Schechner , Laurent Girin

In this paper, we introduce a new task, spoken video grounding (SVG), which aims to localize the desired video fragments from spoken language descriptions. Compared with using text, employing audio requires the model to directly exploit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Yan Xia , Zhou Zhao , Shangwei Ye , Yang Zhao , Haoyuan Li , Yi Ren

Sound source localization task aims to identify the locations of sound-emitting objects by leveraging correlations between audio and visual modalities. Most existing SSL methods rely on contrastive learning-based feature matching, but lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Subin Park , Jung Uk Kim

Sound source localization (SSL) is a critical technology for determining the position of sound sources in complex environments. However, existing methods face challenges such as high computational costs and precise calibration requirements,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yiyuan Yang , Shitong Xu , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Humans can easily perceive the direction of sound sources in a visual scene, termed sound source localization. Recent studies on learning-based sound source localization have mainly explored the problem from a localization perspective.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Arda Senocak , Hyeonggon Ryu , Junsik Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh , Hanspeter Pfister , Joon Son Chung

How does audio describe the world around us? In this work, we propose a method for generating images of visual scenes from diverse in-the-wild sounds. This cross-modal generation task is challenging due to the significant information gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Kim Sung-Bin , Arda Senocak , Hyunwoo Ha , Tae-Hyun Oh

How does audio describe the world around us? In this paper, we propose a method for generating an image of a scene from sound. Our method addresses the challenges of dealing with the large gaps that often exist between sight and sound. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Kim Sung-Bin , Arda Senocak , Hyunwoo Ha , Andrew Owens , Tae-Hyun Oh

Video text spotting (VTS) aims to simultaneously localize, recognize and track text instances in videos. To address the limited recognition capability of end-to-end methods, recent methods track the zero-shot results of state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Hongen Liu , Di Sun , Jiahao Wang , Yi Liu , Gang Pan

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

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

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…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Yoshiki Masuyama , Yoshiaki Bando , Kohei Yatabe , Yoko Sasaki , Masaki Onishi , Yasuhiro Oikawa