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Motion detection is a fundamental but challenging task for autonomous driving. In particular scenes like highway, remote objects have to be paid extra attention for better controlling decision. Aiming at distant vehicles, we train a neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Ka Man Lo

The identification of sound sources is a common problem in acoustics. Different parameters are sought, among these are signal and position of the sources. We present an adjoint-based approach for sound source identification, which employs…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Mathias Lemke , Lewin Stein

Urban noise maps and noise visualizations traditionally provide macroscopic representations of noise levels across cities. However, those representations fail at accurately gauging the sound perception associated with these sound…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Modan Tailleur , Pierre Aumond , Vincent Tourre , Mathieu Lagrange

Can we determine someone's geographic location purely from the sounds they hear? Are acoustic signals enough to localize within a country, state, or even city? We tackle the challenge of global-scale audio geolocation, formalize the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Mustafa Chasmai , Wuao Liu , Subhransu Maji , Grant Van Horn

Making predictions of future frames is a critical challenge in autonomous driving research. Most of the existing methods for video prediction attempt to generate future frames in simple and fixed scenes. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Henglai Wei , Xiaochuan Yin , Penghong Lin

Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) can generate high-quality videos, but often struggle with producing temporally coherent motion. Optical flow supervision is a promising approach to address this, with prior works commonly employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kuanting Wu , Kei Ota , Asako Kanezaki

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

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

Sound source localization (SSL) is a critical technology for determining the position of sound sources in complex environments. However, existing methods face challenges such as high computational costs and precise calibration requirements,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yiyuan Yang , Shitong Xu , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Recent advances in image, video, text and audio generative techniques, and their use by the general public, are leading to new forms of content generation. Usually, each modality was approached separately, which poses limitations. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-05 María Sánchez , Laura Fernández , Julián Arias , Mateo Cámara , Giulia Comini , Adam Gabrys , José Luis Blanco , Juan Ignacio Godino , Luis Alfonso Hernández

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

Motion is a fundamental cue for scene analysis and human activity understan- ding in videos. It can be encoded in trajectories for tracking objects and for action recognition, or in form of flow to address behaviour analysis in crowded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Eduardo M. Pereira , Jaime S. Cardoso , Ricardo Morla

Real-time motion detection in non-stationary scenes is a difficult task due to dynamic background, changing foreground appearance and limited computational resource. These challenges degrade the performance of the existing methods in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Junjie Huang , Wei Zou , Zheng Zhu , Jiagang Zhu

We learn rich natural sound representations by capitalizing on large amounts of unlabeled sound data collected in the wild. We leverage the natural synchronization between vision and sound to learn an acoustic representation using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Yusuf Aytar , Carl Vondrick , Antonio Torralba

Humans naturally perceive surrounding scenes by unifying sound and sight in a first-person view. Likewise, machines are advanced to approach human intelligence by learning with multisensory inputs from an egocentric perspective. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Chao Huang , Yapeng Tian , Anurag Kumar , Chenliang Xu

Sound source tracking is commonly performed using classical array-processing algorithms, while machine-learning approaches typically rely on precise source position labels that are expensive or impractical to obtain. This paper introduces a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Luan Vinícius Fiorio , Ivana Nikoloska , Bruno Defraene , Alex Young , Johan David , Ronald M. Aarts

A major focus of current research on place recognition is visual localization for autonomous driving. In this scenario, as cameras will be operating continuously, it is realistic to expect videos as an input to visual localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Anh-Dzung Doan , Yasir Latif , Tat-Jun Chin , Yu Liu , Shin-Fang Ch'ng , Thanh-Toan Do , Ian Reid

How can we tell whether a video has been sped up or slowed down? How can we generate videos at different speeds? Although videos have been central to modern computer vision research, little attention has been paid to perceiving and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yen-Siang Wu , Rundong Luo , Jingsen Zhu , Tao Tu , Ali Farhadi , Matthew Wallingford , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Steve Marschner , Wei-Chiu Ma

Our objective is to transform a video into a set of discrete audio-visual objects using self-supervised learning. To this end, we introduce a model that uses attention to localize and group sound sources, and optical flow to aggregate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Owens , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Zisserman

Never having seen an object and heard its sound simultaneously, can the model still accurately localize its visual position from the input audio? In this work, we concentrate on the Audio-Visual Localization and Segmentation tasks but under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Yaoting Wang , Weisong Liu , Guangyao Li , Jian Ding , Di Hu , Xi Li