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Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to produce pixel-level masks of sound producing objects in videos, by jointly learning from audio and visual signals. However, real-world environments are inherently dynamic, causing audio and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Siddeshwar Raghavan , Gautham Vinod , Bruce Coburn , Fengqing Zhu

Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation (AVSS) aligns audio and video at the pixel level but requires costly per-frame annotations. We introduce Weakly Supervised Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation (WSAVSS), which uses only video-level labels to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chengzhi Li , Heyan Huang , Ping Jian , Yanghao Zhou

Recognizing the sounding objects in scenes is a longstanding objective in embodied AI, with diverse applications in robotics and AR/VR/MR. To that end, Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS), taking as condition an audio signal to identify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Artem Sokolov , Swapnil Bhosale , Xiatian Zhu

Audio-visual segmentation (AVS) aims to segment the sounding objects in video frames. Although great progress has been witnessed, we experimentally reveal that current methods reach marginal performance gain within the use of the unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jinxiang Liu , Yikun Liu , Fei Zhang , Chen Ju , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) methods are capable of performing semantic segmentation without relying on a fixed vocabulary, and in some cases, without training or fine-tuning. However, OVS methods typically require a human in the loop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Osman Ülger , Maksymilian Kulicki , Yuki Asano , Martin R. Oswald

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) targets pixel level localization of sounding emitting objects in videos. However, existing models rely on dense cross-modal attention with quadratic computational cost, limiting their suitability for resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Qing Zhong , Guodong Ding , Lingqiao Liu , Zaiwen Feng , Lin Yuanbo Wu , Angela Yao

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to achieve pixel-level localization of sound sources in videos, while Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation (AVSS), as an extension of AVS, further pursues semantic understanding of audio-visual scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Juncheng Ma , Peiwen Sun , Yaoting Wang , Di Hu

Audio-visual segmentation (AVS) is an emerging task that aims to accurately segment sounding objects based on audio-visual cues. The success of AVS learning systems depends on the effectiveness of cross-modal interaction. Such a requirement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yuanhong Chen , Chong Wang , Yuyuan Liu , Hu Wang , Gustavo Carneiro

Traditional reference segmentation tasks have predominantly focused on silent visual scenes, neglecting the integral role of multimodal perception and interaction in human experiences. In this work, we introduce a novel task called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yaoting Wang , Peiwen Sun , Dongzhan Zhou , Guangyao Li , Honggang Zhang , Di Hu

The Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) task aims to segment sounding objects in the visual space using audio cues. However, in this work, it is recognized that previous AVS methods show a heavy reliance on detrimental segmentation preferences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yaoting Wang , Peiwen Sun , Yuanchao Li , Honggang Zhang , Di Hu

The combination of audio and vision has long been a topic of interest in the multi-modal community. Recently, a new audio-visual segmentation (AVS) task has been introduced, aiming to locate and segment the sounding objects in a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Shengyi Gao , Zhe Chen , Guo Chen , Wenhai Wang , Tong Lu

Present-day deep neural networks for video semantic segmentation require a large number of fine-grained pixel-level annotations to achieve the best possible results. Obtaining such annotations, however, is very expensive. On the other hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Samik Some , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to extract the sounding object from a video frame, which is represented by a pixel-wise segmentation mask for application scenarios such as multi-modal video editing, augmented reality, and intelligent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Zhaofeng Shi , Qingbo Wu , Fanman Meng , Linfeng Xu , Hongliang Li

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) methods offer promising capabilities in detecting unseen object categories, but the category must be known and needs to be provided by a human, either via a text prompt or pre-labeled datasets, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Weijie Wei , Osman Ülger , Fatemeh Karimi Nejadasl , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald

Existing instance segmentation models learn task-specific information using manual mask annotations from base (training) categories. These mask annotations require tremendous human effort, limiting the scalability to annotate novel (new)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Vibashan VS , Ning Yu , Chen Xing , Can Qin , Mingfei Gao , Juan Carlos Niebles , Vishal M. Patel , Ran Xu

In this paper, we consider the problem of open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS), which aims to segment objects of arbitrary classes instead of pre-defined, closed-set categories. The main contributions are as follows: First, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jilan Xu , Junlin Hou , Yuejie Zhang , Rui Feng , Yi Wang , Yu Qiao , Weidi Xie

In this paper, we propose a new multi-modal task, termed audio-visual instance segmentation (AVIS), which aims to simultaneously identify, segment and track individual sounding object instances in audible videos. To facilitate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ruohao Guo , Xianghua Ying , Yaru Chen , Dantong Niu , Guangyao Li , Liao Qu , Yanyu Qi , Jinxing Zhou , Bowei Xing , Wenzhen Yue , Ji Shi , Qixun Wang , Peiliang Zhang , Buwen Liang

Semantic Segmentation is one of the most challenging vision tasks, usually requiring large amounts of training data with expensive pixel level annotations. With the success of foundation models and especially vision-language models, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Soroush Seifi , Daniel Olmeda Reino , Fabien Despinoy , Rahaf Aljundi

This report presents an Audio-aware Referring Video Object Segmentation (Ref-VOS) pipeline tailored to the MEVIS\_Audio setting, where the referring expression is provided in spoken form rather than as clean text. Compared with a standard…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Deshui Miao , Yameng Gu , Chao Yang , Xin Li , Haijun Zhang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to segment specific objects in videos based on natural language expressions involving audio, vision, and text information. This task poses significant challenges in cross-modal reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Dian Jin , Yanghao Zhou , Jinxing Zhou , Jiaqi Ma , Ruohao Guo , Dan Guo