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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

The objective of the sound source localization task is to enable machines to detect the location of sound-making objects within a visual scene. While the audio modality provides spatial cues to locate the sound source, existing approaches…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sung Jin Um , Dongjin Kim , Jung Uk Kim

Most recent work in visual sound source localization relies on semantic audio-visual representations learned in a self-supervised manner, and by design excludes temporal information present in videos. While it proves to be effective for…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Rajsuryan Singh , Pablo Zinemanas , Xavier Serra , Juan Pablo Bello , Magdalena Fuentes

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

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

Audio-visual sound source localization (AV-SSL) estimates the position of sound sources by fusing auditory and visual cues. Current AV-SSL methodologies typically require spatially-paired audio-visual data and cannot selectively localize…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yu Chen , Hongxu Zhu , Jiadong Wang , Kainan Chen , Xinyuan Qian

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

Sound source localization aims to localize objects emitting the sound in visual scenes. Recent works obtaining impressive results typically rely on contrastive learning. However, the common practice of randomly sampling negatives in prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Zengjie Song , Jiangshe Zhang , Yuxi Wang , Junsong Fan , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Audio-Visual Source Localization (AVSL) is the task of identifying specific sounding objects in the scene given audio cues. In our work, we focus on semi-supervised AVSL with pseudo-labeling. To address the issues with vanilla hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yuxin Guo , Shijie Ma , Yuhao Zhao , Hu Su , Wei Zou

The task of audio-visual sound source localization has been well studied under constrained scenes, where the audio recordings are clean. However, in real-world scenarios, audios are usually contaminated by off-screen sound and background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xian Liu , Rui Qian , Hang Zhou , Di Hu , Weiyao Lin , Ziwei Liu , Bolei Zhou , Xiaowei Zhou

Humans are able to localize objects in the environment using both visual and auditory cues, integrating information from multiple modalities into a common reference frame. We introduce a system that can leverage unlabeled audio-visual data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Chuang Gan , Hang Zhao , Peihao Chen , David Cox , Antonio Torralba

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

Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) aims to recognize corresponding text by analyzing visual information from lip movements. Due to the high variability and weak information of lip movements, VSR tasks require effectively utilizing any…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Zehua Liu , Xiaolou Li , Chen Chen , Li Guo , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

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

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

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

This report proposes an improved method for the Temporal Sound Localisation (TSL) task, which localizes and classifies the sound events occurring in the video according to a predefined set of sound classes. The champion solution from last…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Haowei Gu , Weihao Zhu , Yang Yang

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

Large-scale vision-language models demonstrate strong multimodal alignment and generalization across diverse tasks. Among them, CLIP stands out as one of the most successful approaches. In this work, we extend the application of CLIP to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Sooyoung Park , Arda Senocak , Joon Son Chung

We propose a self-supervised approach for learning to perform audio source separation in videos based on natural language queries, using only unlabeled video and audio pairs as training data. A key challenge in this task is learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Reuben Tan , Arijit Ray , Andrea Burns , Bryan A. Plummer , Justin Salamon , Oriol Nieto , Bryan Russell , Kate Saenko