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We introduce and explore a new multimodal input representation for vision-language models: acoustic field video. Unlike conventional video (RGB with stereo/mono audio), our video stream provides a spatially grounded visualization of sound…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Daehwa Kim , Chris Harrison

We present a method to learn compositional multi-object dynamics models from image observations based on implicit object encoders, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), and graph neural networks. NeRFs have become a popular choice for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Danny Driess , Zhiao Huang , Yunzhu Li , Russ Tedrake , Marc Toussaint

We present Panoptic Neural Fields (PNF), an object-aware neural scene representation that decomposes a scene into a set of objects (things) and background (stuff). Each object is represented by an oriented 3D bounding box and a multi-layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Abhijit Kundu , Kyle Genova , Xiaoqi Yin , Alireza Fathi , Caroline Pantofaru , Leonidas Guibas , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Frank Dellaert , Thomas Funkhouser

In this work we target a learnable output representation that allows continuous, high resolution outputs of arbitrary shape. Recent works represent 3D surfaces implicitly with a Neural Network, thereby breaking previous barriers in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Julian Chibane , Aymen Mir , Gerard Pons-Moll

We present a new dataset called Real Acoustic Fields (RAF) that captures real acoustic room data from multiple modalities. The dataset includes high-quality and densely captured room impulse response data paired with multi-view images, and…

Recent advances have enabled a single neural network to serve as an implicit scene representation, establishing the mapping function between spatial coordinates and scene properties. In this paper, we make a further step towards continual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Zike Yan , Yuxin Tian , Xuesong Shi , Ping Guo , Peng Wang , Hongbin Zha

Although Maxwell discovered the physical laws of electromagnetic waves 160 years ago, how to precisely model the propagation of an RF signal in an electrically large and complex environment remains a long-standing problem. The difficulty is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Xiaopeng Zhao , Zhenlin An , Qingrui Pan , Lei Yang

We present Neural Reflectance Fields, a novel deep scene representation that encodes volume density, normal and reflectance properties at any 3D point in a scene using a fully-connected neural network. We combine this representation with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Pratul Srinivasan , Ben Mildenhall , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Miloš Hašan , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Having knowledge of the environmental context of the user i.e. the knowledge of the users' indoor location and the semantics of their environment, can facilitate the development of many of location-aware applications. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Muhammad A. Shah , Bhiksha Raj , Khaled A. Harras

From whirling ceiling fans to ticking clocks, the sounds that we hear subtly vary as we move through a scene. We ask whether these ambient sounds convey information about 3D scene structure and, if so, whether they provide a useful learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ziyang Chen , Xixi Hu , Andrew Owens

Implicit surfaces via neural radiance fields (NeRF) have shown surprising accuracy in surface reconstruction. Despite their success in reconstructing richly textured surfaces, existing methods struggle with planar regions with weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Albert Gassol Puigjaner , Edoardo Mello Rella , Erik Sandström , Ajad Chhatkuli , Luc Van Gool

Implicit fields have recently shown increasing success in representing and learning 3D shapes accurately. Signed distance fields and occupancy fields are decades old and still the preferred representations, both with well-studied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Edoardo Mello Rella , Ajad Chhatkuli , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

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

How does the brain predict physical outcomes while acting in the world? Machine learning world models compress visual input into latent spaces, discarding the spatial structure that characterizes sensory cortex. We propose isomorphic world…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-24 Joshua Nunley

Semantic labelling is highly correlated with geometry and radiance reconstruction, as scene entities with similar shape and appearance are more likely to come from similar classes. Recent implicit neural reconstruction techniques are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Shuaifeng Zhi , Tristan Laidlow , Stefan Leutenegger , Andrew J. Davison

Implicit neural representations (INRs) mark a fundamental shift in signal modeling, moving from discrete sampled data to continuous functional representations. By parameterizing signals as neural networks, INRs provide a unified framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Dhananjaya Jayasundara , Vishal M. Patel

In recent years, Neural Fields (NFs) have emerged as an effective tool for encoding diverse continuous signals such as images, videos, audio, and 3D shapes. When applied to 3D data, NFs offer a solution to the fragmentation and limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Luca De Luigi , Daniele Sirocchi , Adriano Cardace , Riccardo Spezialetti , Francesco Ballerini , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

We present SPEAR, a continuous receiver-to-receiver acoustic neural warping field for spatial acoustic effects prediction in an acoustic 3D space with a single stationary audio source. Unlike traditional source-to-receiver modelling methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yuhang He , Shitong Xu , Jia-Xing Zhong , Sangyun Shin , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Traveling waves of neural activity are widely observed in the brain, but their precise computational function remains unclear. One prominent hypothesis is that they enable the transfer and integration of spatial information across neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Mozes Jacobs , Roberto C. Budzinski , Lyle Muller , Demba Ba , T. Anderson Keller

Room impulse response (RIR) functions capture how the surrounding physical environment transforms the sounds heard by a listener, with implications for various applications in AR, VR, and robotics. Whereas traditional methods to estimate…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Sagnik Majumder , Changan Chen , Ziad Al-Halah , Kristen Grauman