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The sound of crashing waves, the roar of fast-moving cars -- sound conveys important information about the objects in our surroundings. In this work, we show that ambient sounds can be used as a supervisory signal for learning visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Andrew Owens , Jiajun Wu , Josh H. McDermott , William T. Freeman , Antonio Torralba

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

Humans can robustly recognize and localize objects by integrating visual and auditory cues. While machines are able to do the same now with images, less work has been done with sounds. This work develops an approach for dense semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Identification and localization of sounds are both integral parts of computational auditory scene analysis. Although each can be solved separately, the goal of forming coherent auditory objects and achieving a comprehensive spatial scene…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Ivo Trowitzsch , Christopher Schymura , Dorothea Kolossa , Klaus Obermayer

Humans can robustly recognize and localize objects by using visual and/or auditory cues. While machines are able to do the same with visual data already, less work has been done with sounds. This work develops an approach for scene…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Dengxin Dai , Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Jiri Matas , Luc Van Gool

Recent studies on learning-based sound source localization have mainly focused on the localization performance perspective. However, prior work and existing benchmarks overlook a crucial aspect: cross-modal interaction, which is essential…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Arda Senocak , Hyeonggon Ryu , Junsik Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh , Hanspeter Pfister , Joon Son Chung

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

Visual localization is the problem of estimating the position and orientation from which a given image (or a sequence of images) is taken in a known scene. It is an important part of a wide range of computer vision and robotics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Ara Jafarzadeh , Manuel Lopez Antequera , Pau Gargallo , Yubin Kuang , Carl Toft , Fredrik Kahl , Torsten Sattler

We propose a novel learning-based formulation for visual localization of vehicles that can operate in real-time in city-scale environments. Visual localization algorithms determine the position and orientation from which an image has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Arthur Moreau , Thomas Gilles , Nathan Piasco , Dzmitry Tsishkou , Bogdan Stanciulescu , Arnaud de La Fortelle

Visual-based recognition, e.g., image classification, object detection, etc., is a long-standing challenge in computer vision and robotics communities. Concerning the roboticists, since the knowledge of the environment is a prerequisite for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Antonios Gasteratos , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas , Tobias Fischer , Yiannis Aloimonos , Michael Milford

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

The objective of this work is to localize sound sources that are visible in a video without using manual annotations. Our key technical contribution is to show that, by training the network to explicitly discriminate challenging image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Honglie Chen , Weidi Xie , Triantafyllos Afouras , Arsha Nagrani , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Purpose: Surgical scene understanding is key to advancing computer-aided and intelligent surgical systems. Current approaches predominantly rely on visual data or end-to-end learning, which limits fine-grained contextual modeling. This work…

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

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

We present a unified model capable of simultaneously grounding both spoken language and non-speech sounds within a visual scene, addressing key limitations in current audio-visual grounding models. Existing approaches are typically limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hyeonggon Ryu , Seongyu Kim , Joon Son Chung , Arda Senocak

We introduce the visual acoustic matching task, in which an audio clip is transformed to sound like it was recorded in a target environment. Given an image of the target environment and a waveform for the source audio, the goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Changan Chen , Ruohan Gao , Paul Calamia , Kristen Grauman

The concept of geo-localization refers to the process of determining where on earth some `entity' is located, typically using Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates. The entity of interest may be an image, sequence of images, a video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Daniel Wilson , Xiaohan Zhang , Waqas Sultani , Safwan Wshah

Audio captioning aims to generate text descriptions of audio clips. In the real world, many objects produce similar sounds. How to accurately recognize ambiguous sounds is a major challenge for audio captioning. In this work, inspired by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Xubo Liu , Qiushi Huang , Xinhao Mei , Haohe Liu , Qiuqiang Kong , Jianyuan Sun , Shengchen Li , Tom Ko , Yu Zhang , Lilian H. Tang , Mark D. Plumbley , Volkan Kılıç , Wenwu Wang

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