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The ability to accurately recognize, localize and separate sound sources is fundamental to any audio-visual perception task. Historically, these abilities were tackled separately, with several methods developed independently for each task.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Shentong Mo , Pedro Morgado

Vision-and-language navigation requires an agent to navigate through a real 3D environment following natural language instructions. Despite significant advances, few previous works are able to fully utilize the strong correspondence between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yicong Hong , Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Qi Wu , Stephen Gould

Vision guided navigation requires processing complex visual information to inform task-orientated decisions. Applications include autonomous robots, self-driving cars, and assistive vision for humans. A key element is the extraction and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jaime Ruiz-Serra , Jack White , Stephen Petrie , Tatiana Kameneva , Chris McCarthy

When watching videos, the occurrence of a visual event is often accompanied by an audio event, e.g., the voice of lip motion, the music of playing instruments. There is an underlying correlation between audio and visual events, which can be…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ying Cheng , Ruize Wang , Zhihao Pan , Rui Feng , Yuejie Zhang

Person or identity verification has been recently gaining a lot of attention using audio-visual fusion as faces and voices share close associations with each other. Conventional approaches based on audio-visual fusion rely on score-level or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 R. Gnana Praveen , Jahangir Alam

Audio-visual correlation learning aims to capture and understand natural phenomena between audio and visual data. The rapid growth of Deep Learning propelled the development of proposals that process audio-visual data and can be observed in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Luis Vilaca , Yi Yu , Paula Vinan

Intelligent agents often require collaborative strategies to achieve complex tasks beyond individual capabilities in real-world scenarios. While existing audio-visual navigation (AVN) research mainly focuses on single-agent systems, their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hailong Zhang , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang , Fuchun Sun , Wendong Zheng

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

Navigating unknown environments to find a target object is a significant challenge. While semantic information is crucial for navigation, relying solely on it for decision-making may not always be efficient, especially in environments with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mingjie Zhang , Yuheng Du , Chengkai Wu , Jinni Zhou , Zhenchao Qi , Jun Ma , Boyu Zhou

Over the past few years, there has been a great deal of research on navigation tasks in indoor environments using deep reinforcement learning agents. Most of these tasks use only visual information in the form of first-person images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Haru Kondoh , Asako Kanezaki

With the advance in self-supervised learning for audio and visual modalities, it has become possible to learn a robust audio-visual speech representation. This would be beneficial for improving the audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Zi-Qiang Zhang , Jie Zhang , Jian-Shu Zhang , Ming-Hui Wu , Xin Fang , Li-Rong Dai

Audio-visual segmentation (AVS) is a challenging task that involves accurately segmenting sounding objects based on audio-visual cues. The effectiveness of audio-visual learning critically depends on achieving accurate cross-modal alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yuanhong Chen , Yuyuan Liu , Hu Wang , Fengbei Liu , Chong Wang , Helen Frazer , Gustavo Carneiro

Embodied navigation in open, dynamic environments demands accurate foresight of how the world will evolve and how actions will unfold over time. We propose AstraNav-World, an end-to-end world model that jointly reasons about future visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jintao Chen , Junjun Hu , Haochen Bai , Minghua Luo , Xinda Xue , Botao Ren , Chengyu Bai , Shichao Xie , Ziyi Chen , Fei Liu , Zedong Chu , Xiaolong Wu , Mu Xu , Shanghang Zhang

Acoustic matching aims to re-synthesize an audio clip to sound as if it were recorded in a target acoustic environment. Existing methods assume access to paired training data, where the audio is observed in both source and target…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Arjun Somayazulu , Changan Chen , Kristen Grauman

In Audio-Visual Navigation (AVN), agents must locate sound sources in unseen 3D environments using visual and auditory cues. However, existing methods often struggle with generalization in unseen scenarios, as they tend to overfit to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jia Li , Yinfeng Yu

Grounding a command to the visual environment is an essential ingredient for interactions between autonomous vehicles and humans. In this work, we study the problem of language grounding for autonomous vehicles, which aims to localize a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Hou Pong Chan , Mingxi Guo , Cheng-Zhong Xu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to ground language instructions to its own movement within a visual environment. While state-of-the-art methods leverage the reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for…

We study how autonomous robots can learn by themselves to improve their depth estimation capability. In particular, we investigate a self-supervised learning setup in which stereo vision depth estimates serve as targets for a convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Diogo Martins , Kevin van Hecke , Guido de Croon

Current vision-language navigation methods face substantial bottlenecks regarding heterogeneous robot compatibility, real-time performance, and navigation safety. Furthermore, they struggle to support open-vocabulary semantic generalization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Mingao Tan , Yiyang Li , Shanze Wang , Xinming Zhang , Wei Zhang

Visual navigation for autonomous agents is a core task in the fields of computer vision and robotics. Learning-based methods, such as deep reinforcement learning, have the potential to outperform the classical solutions developed for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zachary Seymour , Kowshik Thopalli , Niluthpol Mithun , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar