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Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to segment sound-producing objects in video frames based on the associated audio signal. Prevailing AVS methods typically adopt an audio-centric Transformer architecture, where object queries are derived…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shaofei Huang , Rui Ling , Tianrui Hui , Hongyu Li , Xu Zhou , Shifeng Zhang , Si Liu , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

Audio-visual segmentation is a challenging task that aims to predict pixel-level masks for sound sources in a video. Previous work applied a comprehensive manually designed architecture with countless pixel-wise accurate masks as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Shentong Mo , Bhiksha Raj

Community researchers have developed a range of advanced audio-visual segmentation models aimed at improving the quality of sounding objects' masks. While masks created by these models may initially appear plausible, they occasionally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Peiwen Sun , Honggang Zhang , Di Hu

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

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to identify, at the pixel level, the object in a visual scene that produces a given sound. Current AVS methods rely on costly fine-grained annotations of mask-audio pairs, making them impractical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Swapnil Bhosale , Haosen Yang , Diptesh Kanojia , Jiangkang Deng , Xiatian Zhu

The primary aim of Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is to precisely identify and locate auditory elements within visual scenes by accurately predicting segmentation masks at the pixel level. Achieving this involves comprehensively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Khanh-Binh Nguyen , Chae Jung Park

Audiovisual instance segmentation (AVIS) requires accurately localizing and tracking sounding objects throughout video sequences. Existing methods suffer from visual bias stemming from two fundamental issues: uniform additive fusion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Jinbae Seo , Hyeongjun Kwon , Kwonyoung Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Kwanghoon Sohn

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

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

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

Audio visual segmentation (AVS) aims to segment the sounding objects for each frame of a given video. To distinguish the sounding objects from silent ones, both audio-visual semantic correspondence and temporal interaction are required. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Shaofei Huang , Han Li , Yuqing Wang , Hongji Zhu , Jiao Dai , Jizhong Han , Wenge Rong , Si Liu

Segmentation for continuous Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has traditionally used silence timeouts or voice activity detectors (VADs), which are both limited to acoustic features. This segmentation is often overly aggressive, given that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Piyush Behre , Naveen Parihar , Sharman Tan , Amy Shah , Eva Sharma , Geoffrey Liu , Shuangyu Chang , Hosam Khalil , Chris Basoglu , Sayan Pathak

Audio-Visual Source Localization (AVSL) aims to localize the source of sound within a video. In this paper, we identify a significant issue in existing benchmarks: the sounding objects are often easily recognized based solely on visual…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Liangyu Chen , Zihao Yue , Boshen Xu , Qin Jin

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

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 semantic segmentation (AVSS) represents an extension of the audio-visual segmentation (AVS) task, necessitating a semantic understanding of audio-visual scenes beyond merely identifying sound-emitting objects at the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yujian Lee , Peng Gao , Yongqi Xu , Wentao Fan

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

In the booming video era, video segmentation attracts increasing research attention in the multimedia community. Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims at segmenting objects in all target frames of a video, given annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xiaohao Xu , Jinglu Wang , Xiang Ming , Yan Lu

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 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