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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

In this paper, we study zero-shot learning in audio classification via semantic embeddings extracted from textual labels and sentence descriptions of sound classes. Our goal is to obtain a classifier that is capable of recognizing audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-12 Huang Xie , Tuomas Virtanen

In this work, we propose an effective approach for training unique embedding representations by combining three simultaneous modalities: image and spoken and textual narratives. The proposed methodology departs from a baseline system that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Benet Oriol , Jordi Luque , Ferran Diego , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

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

Joint embedding spaces have significantly advanced music understanding and generation by linking text and audio through multimodal contrastive learning. However, these approaches face large memory requirement limitations due to relying on…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Julien Guinot , Alain Riou , Elio Quinton , György Fazekas

We describe an approach to predict open-vocabulary 3D semantic voxel occupancy map from input 2D images with the objective of enabling 3D grounding, segmentation and retrieval of free-form language queries. This is a challenging problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Antonin Vobecky , Oriane Siméoni , David Hurych , Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Patrick Pérez , Josef Sivic

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for generalized zero-shot learning in a multi-modal setting, where we have novel classes of audio/video during testing that are not seen during training. We use the semantic relatedness of text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Pratik Mazumder , Pravendra Singh , Kranti Kumar Parida , Vinay P. Namboodiri

In this study, we address the multimodal task of stereo sound event localization and detection with source distance estimation (3D SELD) in regular video content. 3D SELD is a complex task that combines temporal event classification with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Davide Berghi , Philip J. B. Jackson

In this paper, we propose an autonomous exploration and a tapping mechanism-based material mapping system for a mobile robot in unknown environments. The goal of the proposed system is to integrate simultaneous localization and mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Shyam Sundar Kannan , Wonse Jo , Ramviyas Parasuraman , Byung-Cheol Min

We present an audio-visual multimodal approach for the task of zeroshot learning (ZSL) for classification and retrieval of videos. ZSL has been studied extensively in the recent past but has primarily been limited to visual modality and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Kranti Kumar Parida , Neeraj Matiyali , Tanaya Guha , Gaurav Sharma

This study introduces a novel approach to online embedding of multi-scale CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) features into 3D maps. By harnessing CLIP, this methodology surpasses the constraints of conventional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Shun Taguchi , Hideki Deguchi

Audio-visual zero-shot learning methods commonly build on features extracted from pre-trained models, e.g. video or audio classification models. However, existing benchmarks predate the popularization of large multi-modal models, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 David Kurzendörfer , Otniel-Bogdan Mercea , A. Sophia Koepke , Zeynep Akata

Traditionally, research in automated speech recognition has focused on local-first encoding of audio representations to predict the spoken phonemes in an utterance. Unfortunately, approaches relying on such hyper-local information tend to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-19 David M. Chan , Shalini Ghosh , Debmalya Chakrabarty , Björn Hoffmeister

In this paper our objectives are, first, networks that can embed audio and visual inputs into a common space that is suitable for cross-modal retrieval; and second, a network that can localize the object that sounds in an image, given the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Relja Arandjelović , Andrew Zisserman

This paper proposes a zero-shot learning approach for audio classification based on the textual information about class labels without any audio samples from target classes. We propose an audio classification system built on the bilinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Huang Xie , Tuomas Virtanen

Timestamp prediction aims to determine when an image was captured using only visual information, supporting applications such as metadata correction, retrieval, and digital forensics. In outdoor scenarios, hourly estimates rely on cues like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 David G. Shatwell , Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave , Sirnam Swetha , Mubarak Shah

The task of Visual Sound Source Localization (VSSL) involves identifying the location of sound sources in visual scenes, integrating audio-visual data for enhanced scene understanding. Despite advancements in state-of-the-art (SOTA) models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xavier Juanola , Gloria Haro , Magdalena Fuentes

Conventional approaches to sound localization and separation are based on microphone arrays in artificial systems. Inspired by the selective perception of human auditory system, we design a multi-source listening system which can separate…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Xuecong Sun , Han Jia , Zhe Zhang , Yuzhen Yang , Zhaoyong Sun , Jun Yang

Language-audio joint representation learning frameworks typically depend on deterministic embeddings, assuming a one-to-one correspondence between audio and text. In real-world settings, however, the language-audio relationship is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Toranosuke Manabe , Yuchi Ishikawa , Hokuto Munakata , Tatsuya Komatsu

Recent image-to-audio models have shown impressive performance on object-centric visual scenes. However, their application to satellite imagery remains limited by the complex, wide-area semantic ambiguity of top-down views. While satellite…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Kunlin Wu , Yanning Wang , Haofeng Tan , Boyi Chen , Teng Fei , Xianping Ma , Yang Yue , Zan Zhou , Xiaofeng Liu