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Human perceives rich auditory experience with distinct sound heard by ears. Videos recorded with binaural audio particular simulate how human receives ambient sound. However, a large number of videos are with monaural audio only, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yan-Bo Lin , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Sound localization aims to find the source of the audio signal in the visual scene. However, it is labor-intensive to annotate the correlations between the signals sampled from the audio and visual modalities, thus making it difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yan-Bo Lin , Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Estimation of a speaker's direction and head orientation with binaural recordings can be a critical piece of information in many real-world applications with emerging `earable' devices, including smart headphones and AR/VR headsets.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Harshvardhan Takawale , Nirupam Roy

Mobile robots in real-life settings would benefit from being able to localize and track sound sources. Such a capability can help localizing a person or an interesting event in the environment, and also provides enhanced processing for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Jean-Marc Valin , François Michaud , Jean Rouat

Visual sound localization is a typical and challenging problem that predicts the location of objects corresponding to the sound source in a video. Previous methods mainly used the audio-visual association between global audio and one-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Shentong Mo , Haofan Wang

Sound source localization (SSL) is the task of locating the source of sound within an image. Due to the lack of localization labels, the de facto standard in SSL has been to represent an image and audio as a single embedding vector each,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Inho Kim , Youngkil Song , Jicheol Park , Won Hwa Kim , Suha Kwak

Mobile robots in real-life settings would benefit from being able to localize sound sources. Such a capability can nicely complement vision to help localize a person or an interesting event in the environment, and also to provide enhanced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Jean-Marc Valin , François Michaud , Brahim Hadjou , Jean Rouat

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

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

We present a method for simultaneously localizing multiple sound sources within a visual scene. This task requires a model to both group a sound mixture into individual sources, and to associate them with a visual signal. Our method jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Xixi Hu , Ziyang Chen , Andrew Owens

Spatial audio reasoning enables machines to interpret auditory scenes by understanding events and their spatial attributes. In this work, we focus on spatial audio understanding with an emphasis on reasoning about moving sources. First, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Arvind Krishna Sridhar , Yinyi Guo , Erik Visser

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

Learning from audio-visual data offers many possibilities to express correspondence between the audio and visual content, similar to the human perception that relates aural and visual information. In this work, we present a method for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Shanshan Wang , Archontis Politis , Annamaria Mesaros , Tuomas Virtanen

Sounds originate from object motions and vibrations of surrounding air. Inspired by the fact that humans is capable of interpreting sound sources from how objects move visually, we propose a novel system that explicitly captures such motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Hang Zhao , Chuang Gan , Wei-Chiu Ma , Antonio Torralba

Audiovisual scenes are pervasive in our daily life. It is commonplace for humans to discriminatively localize different sounding objects but quite challenging for machines to achieve class-aware sounding objects localization without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Di Hu , Yake Wei , Rui Qian , Weiyao Lin , Ruihua Song , Ji-Rong Wen

Binaural audio provides human listeners with an immersive spatial sound experience, but most existing videos lack binaural audio recordings. We propose an audio spatialization method that draws on visual information in videos to convert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Rishabh Garg , Ruohan Gao , Kristen Grauman

Most recent work in visual sound source localization relies on semantic audio-visual representations learned in a self-supervised manner, and by design excludes temporal information present in videos. While it proves to be effective for…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Rajsuryan Singh , Pablo Zinemanas , Xavier Serra , Juan Pablo Bello , Magdalena Fuentes

Learning to localize the sound source in videos without explicit annotations is a novel area of audio-visual research. Existing work in this area focuses on creating attention maps to capture the correlation between the two modalities to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Dennis Fedorishin , Deen Dayal Mohan , Bhavin Jawade , Srirangaraj Setlur , Venu Govindaraju

Visual sound source localization is a fundamental perception task that aims to detect the location of sounding sources in a video given its audio. Despite recent progress, we identify two shortcomings in current methods: 1) most approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Xavier Juanola , Giovana Morais , Magdalena Fuentes , Gloria Haro

A microphone array can provide a mobile robot with the capability of localizing, tracking and separating distant sound sources in 2D, i.e., estimating their relative elevation and azimuth. To combine acoustic data with visual information in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-23 Simon Michaud , Samuel Faucher , François Grondin , Jean-Samuel Lauzon , Mathieu Labbé , Dominic Létourneau , François Ferland , François Michaud