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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

We present Sat2Sound, a unified multimodal framework for geospatial soundscape understanding, designed to predict and map the distribution of sounds across the Earth's surface. Existing methods for this task rely on paired satellite images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Subash Khanal , Srikumar Sastry , Aayush Dhakal , Adeel Ahmad , Abby Stylianou , Nathan Jacobs

Moving around in the world is naturally a multisensory experience, but today's embodied agents are deaf---restricted to solely their visual perception of the environment. We introduce audio-visual navigation for complex, acoustically and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Changan Chen , Unnat Jain , Carl Schissler , Sebastia Vicenc Amengual Gari , Ziad Al-Halah , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu , Philip Robinson , Kristen Grauman

This project proposes the development of a comprehensive real-time biodiversity monitoring system that harnesses sound data through a network of acoustic sensors and advanced artificial intelligence algorithms. The system analyzes sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Kumar Srinivas Bobba , Kartheeban K , Vamsi Krishna Sai , Dinesh Bugga , Vijaya Mani Surendra Bolla

Visual events are usually accompanied by sounds in our daily lives. However, can the machines learn to correlate the visual scene and sound, as well as localize the sound source only by observing them like humans? To investigate its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Arda Senocak , Tae-Hyun Oh , Junsik Kim , Ming-Hsuan Yang , In So Kweon

This work focuses on reliable detection of bird sound emissions as recorded in the open field. Acoustic detection of avian sounds can be used for the automatized monitoring of multiple bird taxa and querying in long-term recordings for…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Ilyas Potamitis

Environmental sound understanding in computational auditory scene analysis (CASA) is often formulated as an audio-only recognition problem. This formulation leaves a persistent drawback in multi-label audio tagging (AT): acoustic similarity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Yuanbo Hou , Yanru Wu , Qiaoqiao Ren , Shengchen Li , Stephen Roberts , Dick Botteldooren

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

The ability to localize and track acoustic events is a fundamental prerequisite for equipping machines with the ability to be aware of and engage with humans in their surrounding environment. However, in realistic scenarios, audio signals…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Christine Evers , Heinrich Loellmann , Heinrich Mellmann , Alexander Schmidt , Hendrik Barfuss , Patrick Naylor , Walter Kellermann

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

How does audio describe the world around us? In this paper, we propose a method for generating an image of a scene from sound. Our method addresses the challenges of dealing with the large gaps that often exist between sight and sound. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Kim Sung-Bin , Arda Senocak , Hyunwoo Ha , Andrew Owens , Tae-Hyun Oh

Unsupervised audio-visual source localization aims at localizing visible sound sources in a video without relying on ground-truth localization for training. Previous works often seek high audio-visual similarities for likely positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Shentong Mo , Pedro Morgado

Understanding camera motion is a fundamental problem in embodied perception and 3D scene understanding. While visual methods have advanced rapidly, they often struggle under visually degraded conditions such as motion blur or occlusions. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Daniel Adebi , Sagnik Majumder , Kristen Grauman

We focus on the task of soundscape mapping, which involves predicting the most probable sounds that could be perceived at a particular geographic location. We utilise recent state-of-the-art models to encode geotagged audio, a textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Subash Khanal , Srikumar Sastry , Aayush Dhakal , Nathan Jacobs

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

This paper addresses the problem of sound-source localization from time-delay estimates using arbitrarily-shaped non-coplanar microphone arrays. A novel geometric formulation is proposed, together with a thorough algebraic analysis and a…

Sound · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Radu Horaud

Urban noise maps and noise visualizations traditionally provide macroscopic representations of noise levels across cities. However, those representations fail at accurately gauging the sound perception associated with these sound…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Modan Tailleur , Pierre Aumond , Vincent Tourre , Mathieu Lagrange

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

Visual events are usually accompanied by sounds in our daily lives. We pose the question: Can the machine learn the correspondence between visual scene and the sound, and localize the sound source only by observing sound and visual scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Arda Senocak , Tae-Hyun Oh , Junsik Kim , Ming-Hsuan Yang , In So Kweon

Audio classification is paramount in a variety of applications including surveillance, healthcare monitoring, and environmental analysis. Traditional methods frequently depend on intricate signal processing algorithms and manually crafted…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Amlan Basu , Pranav Chaudhari , Gaetano Di Caterina