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An estimated 253 million people have visual impairments. These visual impairments affect everyday lives, and limit their understanding of the outside world. This can pose a risk to health from falling or collisions. We propose a solution to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Alexander Mehta , Ritik Jalisatgi

Audio denoising has been explored for decades using both traditional and deep learning-based methods. However, these methods are still limited to either manually added artificial noise or lower denoised audio quality. To overcome these…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Youshan Zhang , Jialu Li

Most universal sound extraction algorithms focus on isolating a target sound event from single-channel audio mixtures. However, the real world is three-dimensional, and binaural audio, which mimics human hearing, can capture richer spatial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Zexu Pan , Shengkui Zhao , Yukun Ma , Haoxu Wang , Yiheng Jiang , Biao Tian , Bin Ma

We introduce a state-of-the-art audio-visual on-screen sound separation system which is capable of learning to separate sounds and associate them with on-screen objects by looking at in-the-wild videos. We identify limitations of previous…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Efthymios Tzinis , Scott Wisdom , Tal Remez , John R. Hershey

Recognizing human non-speech vocalizations is an important task and has broad applications such as automatic sound transcription and health condition monitoring. However, existing datasets have a relatively small number of vocal sound…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yuan Gong , Jin Yu , James Glass

We learn rich natural sound representations by capitalizing on large amounts of unlabeled sound data collected in the wild. We leverage the natural synchronization between vision and sound to learn an acoustic representation using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Yusuf Aytar , Carl Vondrick , Antonio Torralba

For centuries researchers have used sound to monitor and study wildlife. Traditionally, conservationists have identified species by ear; however, it is now common to deploy audio recording technology to monitor animal and ecosystem sounds.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-15 C. Chalmers , P. Fergus , S. Wich , S. N. Longmore

Deep learning has shown strong performance in geospatial prediction tasks, but the role of geolocation information in improving accuracy and generalizability remains underexamined. Recent work has introduced location encoders that aim to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Morteza Karimzadeh , Zhongying Wang , James L. Crooks

This paper proposes a real-time system integrating an acoustic material estimation from visual appearance and an on-the-fly mapping in the 3-dimension. The proposed method estimates the acoustic materials of surroundings in indoor scenes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Taeyoung Kim , Youngsun Kwon , Sung-eui Yoon

While recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have improved image-based localization, precise global geolocation remains a formidable challenge due to the inherent ambiguity of visual landscapes and the largely untapped…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yiyang Su , Xiaoming Liu

In this work we propose a method that geolocates videos within a delimited widespread area based solely on the frames visual content. Our proposed method tackles video-geolocation through traditional image retrieval techniques considering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Salvador Medina , Zhuyun Dai , Yingkai Gao

Audio-Visual Embodied Navigation aims to enable agents to autonomously navigate to sound sources in unknown 3D environments using auditory cues. While current AVN methods excel on in-distribution sound sources, they exhibit poor…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yi Wang , Yinfeng Yu , Fuchun Sun , Liejun Wang , Wendong Zheng

The explosion in the availability of natural language data in the era of social media has given rise to a host of applications such as sentiment analysis and opinion mining. Simultaneously, the growing availability of precise geolocation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Olga Kellert , Nicholas H. Matlis

The spatial information of sound plays a crucial role in various situations, ranging from daily activities to advanced engineering technologies. To fully utilize its potential, numerous research studies on spatial audio signal processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Natsuki Ueno , Shoichi Koyama

Our goal is to collect a large-scale audio-visual dataset with low label noise from videos in the wild using computer vision techniques. The resulting dataset can be used for training and evaluating audio recognition models. We make three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Honglie Chen , Weidi Xie , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

We propose to use neural networks for simultaneous detection and localization of multiple sound sources in human-robot interaction. In contrast to conventional signal processing techniques, neural network-based sound source localization…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Weipeng He , Petr Motlicek , Jean-Marc Odobez

Reliable image geolocation is crucial for several applications, ranging from social media geo-tagging to fake news detection. State-of-the-art geolocation methods surpass human performance on the task of geolocation estimation from images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Apostolos Panagiotopoulos , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Symeon Papadopoulos

The analysis, processing, and extraction of meaningful information from sounds all around us is the subject of the broader area of audio analytics. Audio captioning is a recent addition to the domain of audio analytics, a cross-modal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Sandeep Kothinti , Dimitra Emmanouilidou

Binaural audio provides human listeners with an immersive spatial sound experience, but most existing videos lack binaural audio recordings. We propose an audio spatialization method that draws on visual information in videos to convert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Rishabh Garg , Ruohan Gao , Kristen Grauman

Artificial life simulations are an important tool in the study of ecological phenomena that can be difficult to examine directly in natural environments. Recent work has established the soundscape as an ecologically important resource and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-31 David Kadish , Sebastian Risi , Laura Beloff