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Recent work on audio-visual navigation assumes a constantly-sounding target and restricts the role of audio to signaling the target's position. We introduce semantic audio-visual navigation, where objects in the environment make sounds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Changan Chen , Ziad Al-Halah , Kristen Grauman

While it is often critical for indoor-location- and proximity-aware applications to know whether a user is in a space or not (e.g., a specific room or office), a key challenge is that the difference between standing on one side or another…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Scott A. Carter , Daniel Avrahami , Nami Tokunaga

The sound of crashing waves, the roar of fast-moving cars -- sound conveys important information about the objects in our surroundings. In this work, we show that ambient sounds can be used as a supervisory signal for learning visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Andrew Owens , Jiajun Wu , Josh H. McDermott , William T. Freeman , Antonio Torralba

Understanding human instructions is essential for enabling smooth human-robot interaction. In this work, we focus on object grounding, i.e., localizing an object of interest in a visual scene (e.g., an image) based on verbal human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Joel Alberto Santos , Zongwei Wu , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Radu Timofte

Is it possible to build a system to determine the location where a photo was taken using just its pixels? In general, the problem seems exceptionally difficult: it is trivial to construct situations where no location can be inferred. Yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Tobias Weyand , Ilya Kostrikov , James Philbin

The majority of sound scene analysis work focuses on one of two clearly defined tasks: acoustic scene classification or sound event detection. Whilst this separation of tasks is useful for problem definition, they inherently ignore some…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Helen L. Bear , Toni Heittola , Annamaria Mesaros , Emmanouil Benetos , Tuomas Virtanen

In this paper, we propose a solution for improving the quality of temporal sound localization. We employ a multimodal fusion approach to combine visual and audio features. High-quality visual features are extracted using a state-of-the-art…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yurui Huang , Yang Yang , Shou Chen , Xiangyu Wu , Qingguo Chen , Jianfeng Lu

Purpose: Surgical scene understanding is key to advancing computer-aided and intelligent surgical systems. Current approaches predominantly rely on visual data or end-to-end learning, which limits fine-grained contextual modeling. This work…

The rapid advances in audio analysis underscore its vast potential for humancomputer interaction, environmental monitoring, and public safety; yet, existing audioonly datasets often lack spatial context. To address this gap, we present two…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Shuaihang Yuan , Congcong Wen , Muhammad Shafique , Anthony Tzes , Yi Fang

From whirling ceiling fans to ticking clocks, the sounds that we hear subtly vary as we move through a scene. We ask whether these ambient sounds convey information about 3D scene structure and, if so, whether they provide a useful learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ziyang Chen , Xixi Hu , Andrew Owens

The objective of this work is to localize sound sources that are visible in a video without using manual annotations. Our key technical contribution is to show that, by training the network to explicitly discriminate challenging image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Honglie Chen , Weidi Xie , Triantafyllos Afouras , Arsha Nagrani , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

We present a simple yet effective self-supervised framework for audio-visual representation learning, to localize the sound source in videos. To understand what enables to learn useful representations, we systematically investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Jinxiang Liu , Chen Ju , Weidi Xie , Ya Zhang

A naive approach for finding similar audio items would be to compare each entry from the feature vector of the test example with each feature vector of the candidates in a k-nearest neighbors fashion. There are already two problems with…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Kastriot Kadriu

We introduce SeeingSounds, a lightweight and modular framework for audio-to-image generation that leverages the interplay between audio, language, and vision-without requiring any paired audio-visual data or training on visual generative…

Place recognition, the ability to identify previously visited locations, is critical for both biological navigation and autonomous systems. This review synthesizes findings from robotic systems, animal studies, and human research to explore…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Michael Milford , Tobias Fischer

Sound sources localization using multichannel signal processing has been a subject of active research for decades. In recent years, the use of deep learning in audio signal processing has allowed to drastically improve performances for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Hadrien Pujol , Éric Bavu , Alexandre Garcia

This article is a survey on deep learning methods for single and multiple sound source localization. We are particularly interested in sound source localization in indoor/domestic environment, where reverberation and diffuse noise are…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Pierre-Amaury Grumiaux , Srđan Kitić , Laurent Girin , Alexandre Guérin

In this paper we present a research on identification of audio recording devices from background noise, thus providing a method for forensics. The audio signal is the sum of speech signal and noise signal. Usually, people pay more attention…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Simeng Qi , Zheng Huang , Yan Li , Shaopei Shi

We investigate an method for quantifying city characteristics based on impressions of a sound environment. The quantification of the city characteristics will be beneficial to government policy planning, tourism projects, etc. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Yusuke Ono , Sunao Hara , Masanobu Abe

Large-scale vision-language models demonstrate strong multimodal alignment and generalization across diverse tasks. Among them, CLIP stands out as one of the most successful approaches. In this work, we extend the application of CLIP to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Sooyoung Park , Arda Senocak , Joon Son Chung