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Audio-Visual Event Localization (AVEL) is the task of temporally localizing and classifying \emph{audio-visual events}, i.e., events simultaneously visible and audible in a video. In this paper, we solve AVEL in a weakly-supervised setting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Kalyan Ramakrishnan

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize instances of unseen classes solely based on the semantic descriptions of the classes. Existing algorithms usually formulate it as a semantic-visual correspondence problem, by learning mappings from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Kai Li , Martin Renqiang Min , Yun Fu

Audio-visual segmentation aims to separate sounding objects from videos by predicting pixel-level masks based on audio signals. Existing methods primarily concentrate on closed-set scenarios and direct audio-visual alignment and fusion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengkai Chen , Yifang Yin , Jinming Cao , Shili Xiang , Zhenguang Liu , Roger Zimmermann

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) seeks to model, and thereby exploit, the dynamic relationship between a human voice and the corresponding mouth movements. A recently proposed multimodal fusion strategy, AV Align, based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 George Sterpu , Christian Saam , Naomi Harte

Weakly supervised Audio-Visual Video Parsing (AVVP) aims to recognize and temporally localize audio, visual, and audio-visual events in videos using only coarse-grained labels. Faced with the challenging task settings, existing research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Huilai Li , Xiaomeng Di , Ying Xing , Yonghao Dang , Yiming Wang , Jianqin Yin

Localizing phrases in images is an important part of image understanding and can be useful in many applications that require mappings between textual and visual information. Existing work attempts to learn these mappings from examples of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Josiah Wang , Lucia Specia

In minimally invasive surgery, surgical instrument localization is a crucial task for endoscopic videos, which enables various applications for improving surgical outcomes. However, annotating the instrument localization in endoscopic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Rongfeng Wei , Jinlin Wu , Xuexue Bai , Ming Feng , Zhen Lei , Hongbin Liu , Zhen Chen

Visual (re)localization addresses the problem of estimating the 6-DoF (Degree of Freedom) camera pose of a query image captured in a known scene, which is a key building block of many computer vision and robotics applications. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Siyan Dong , Shuzhe Wang , Yixin Zhuang , Juho Kannala , Marc Pollefeys , Baoquan Chen

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

The Audio-Visual Video Parsing task aims to identify and temporally localize the events that occur in either or both the audio and visual streams of audible videos. It often performs in a weakly-supervised manner, where only video event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jinxing Zhou , Dan Guo , Yiran Zhong , Meng Wang

Visual grounding aims to predict the locations of target objects specified by textual descriptions. For this task with linguistic and visual modalities, there is a latest research line that focuses on only selecting the linguistic-relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jingchao Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Dingjiang Huang , Hong Wang , Yefeng Zheng

Estimation of the location of sound sources is usually done using microphone arrays. Such settings provide an environment where we know the difference between the received signals among different microphones in the terms of phase or…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Helena Peic Tukuljac , Herve Lissek , Pierre Vandergheynst

Audio-Visual Learning (AVL) is one fundamental task of multi-modality learning and embodied intelligence, displaying the vital role in scene understanding and interaction. However, previous researchers mostly focus on exploring downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Muyi Sun , Yixuan Wang , Hong Wang , Chen Su , Man Zhang , Xingqun Qi , Qi Li , Zhenan Sun

Our brains combine vision and hearing to create a more elaborate interpretation of the world. When the visual input is insufficient, a rich panoply of sounds can be used to describe our surroundings. Since more than 1,000 hours of videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Rohan Mahadev , Hongyu Lu

Natural language video localization (NLVL), which aims to locate a target moment from a video that semantically corresponds to a text query, is a novel and challenging task. Toward this end, in this paper, we present a comprehensive survey…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Xinfang Liu , Xiushan Nie , Zhifang Tan , Jie Guo , Yilong Yin

Sound Source Localization (SSL) are used to estimate the position of sound sources. Various methods have been used for detecting sound and its localization. This paper presents a system for stationary sound source localization by cubical…

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is aimed at predicting the location of a query image by referencing a database of geotagged images. For VPR task, often fewer discriminative local regions in an image produce important effects while mundane…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Changwei Wang , Shunpeng Chen , Yukun Song , Rongtao Xu , Zherui Zhang , Jiguang Zhang , Haoran Yang , Yu Zhang , Kexue Fu , Shide Du , Zhiwei Xu , Longxiang Gao , Li Guo , Shibiao Xu

Audio-Visual Embodied Navigation aims to enable agents to autonomously navigate to sound sources in unknown 3D environments using auditory cues. While current AVN methods excel on in-distribution sound sources, they exhibit poor…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yi Wang , Yinfeng Yu , Fuchun Sun , Liejun Wang , Wendong Zheng

Visual and audio signals often coexist in natural environments, forming audio-visual events (AVEs). Given a video, we aim to localize video segments containing an AVE and identify its category. In order to learn discriminative features for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Jinxing Zhou , Liang Zheng , Yiran Zhong , Shijie Hao , Meng Wang

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