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Localization in already mapped environments is a critical component in many robotics and automotive applications, where previously acquired information can be exploited along with sensor fusion to provide robust and accurate localization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Lorenzo Montano-Oliván , Julio A. Placed , Luis Montano , María T. Lázaro

Identification and localization of sounds are both integral parts of computational auditory scene analysis. Although each can be solved separately, the goal of forming coherent auditory objects and achieving a comprehensive spatial scene…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Ivo Trowitzsch , Christopher Schymura , Dorothea Kolossa , Klaus Obermayer

Given only a few glimpses of an environment, how much can we infer about its entire floorplan? Existing methods can map only what is visible or immediately apparent from context, and thus require substantial movements through a space to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Senthil Purushwalkam , Sebastian Vicenc Amengual Gari , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu , Carl Schissler , Philip Robinson , Abhinav Gupta , Kristen Grauman

Geometric navigation is nowadays a well-established field of robotics and the research focus is shifting towards higher-level scene understanding, such as Semantic Mapping. When a robot needs to interact with its environment, it must be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Federico Rollo , Gennaro Raiola , Andrea Zunino , Nikolaos Tsagarakis , Arash Ajoudani

Mainstream Audio Analytics models are trained to learn under the paradigm of one class label to many recordings focusing on one task. Learning under such restricted supervision limits the flexibility of models because they require labeled…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Benjamin Elizalde , Soham Deshmukh , Mahmoud Al Ismail , Huaming Wang

We study the problem of multimodal physical scene understanding, where an embodied agent needs to find fallen objects by inferring object properties, direction, and distance of an impact sound source. Previous works adopt feed-forward…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jie Yin , Andrew Luo , Yilun Du , Anoop Cherian , Tim K. Marks , Jonathan Le Roux , Chuang Gan

Recent complementary strands of research have shown that leveraging information on the data source through encoding their properties into embeddings can lead to performance increase when training a single model on heterogeneous data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Rob van der Goot , Ahmet Üstün , Barbara Plank

Interpreting the decisions of deep learning models, including audio classifiers, is crucial for ensuring the transparency and trustworthiness of this technology. In this paper, we introduce LMAC-ZS (Listenable Maps for Audio Classifiers in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Francesco Paissan , Luca Della Libera , Mirco Ravanelli , Cem Subakan

Recent advances in audio-text cross-modal contrastive learning have shown its potential towards zero-shot learning. One possibility for this is by projecting item embeddings from pre-trained backbone neural networks into a cross-modal space…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tiago Tavares , Fabio Ayres , Zhepei Wang , Paris Smaragdis

Tag-based music retrieval is crucial to browse large-scale music libraries efficiently. Hence, automatic music tagging has been actively explored, mostly as a classification task, which has an inherent limitation: a fixed vocabulary. On the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Minz Won , Sergio Oramas , Oriol Nieto , Fabien Gouyon , Xavier Serra

Music recommender systems frequently utilize network-based models to capture relationships between music pieces, artists, and users. Although these relationships provide valuable insights for predictions, new music pieces or artists often…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Florian Grötschla , Luca Strässle , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Roger Wattenhofer

Visual-audio navigation (VAN) is attracting more and more attention from the robotic community due to its broad applications, \emph{e.g.}, household robots and rescue robots. In this task, an embodied agent must search for and navigate to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Hongcheng Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Fangwei Zhong , Mingdong Wu , Jianwei Zhang , Yizhou Wang , Hao Dong

Sound event localization aims at estimating the positions of sound sources in the environment with respect to an acoustic receiver (e.g. a microphone array). Recent advances in this domain most prominently focused on utilizing deep…

Indoor localization systems often fuse inertial odometry with map information via hand-defined methods to reduce odometry drift, but such methods are sensitive to noise and struggle to generalize across odometry sources. To address the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Dennis Melamed , Karnik Ram , Vivek Roy , Kris Kitani

General-purpose audio representations aim to map acoustically variable instances of the same event to nearby points, resolving content identity in a zero-shot setting. Unlike supervised classification benchmarks that measure adaptability…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Maris Basha , Anja Zai , Sabine Stoll , Richard Hahnloser

We study the problem of learning association between face and voice, which is gaining interest in the computer vision community lately. Prior works adopt pairwise or triplet loss formulations to learn an embedding space amenable for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Muhammad Saad Saeed , Muhammad Haris Khan , Shah Nawaz , Muhammad Haroon Yousaf , Alessio Del Bue

We aim for zero-shot localization and classification of human actions in video. Where traditional approaches rely on global attribute or object classification scores for their zero-shot knowledge transfer, our main contribution is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek

The growing availability of co-located geospatial data spanning aerial imagery, street-level views, elevation models, text, and geographic coordinates offers a unique opportunity for multimodal representation learning. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Guillaume Astruc , Eduard Trulls , Jan Hosang , Loic Landrieu , Paul-Edouard Sarlin

Geo-localization aims to infer the geographic origin of a given signal. In computer vision, geo-localization has served as a demanding benchmark for compositional reasoning and is relevant to public safety. In contrast, progress on audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Ruixing Zhang , Zihan Liu , Leilei Sun , Tongyu Zhu , Weifeng Lv

Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP) models are widely used for audio understanding and support modality-agnostic condition swapping in many zero-shot applications. However, their performance is heavily affected by the modality gap…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yonggang Zhu , Liting Gao , Aidong Men , Wenwu Wang