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Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to produce pixel-level masks of sound producing objects in videos, by jointly learning from audio and visual signals. However, real-world environments are inherently dynamic, causing audio and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Siddeshwar Raghavan , Gautham Vinod , Bruce Coburn , Fengqing Zhu

Multi-modal learning, particularly among imaging and linguistic modalities, has made amazing strides in many high-level fundamental visual understanding problems, ranging from language grounding to dense event captioning. However, much of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Tanzila Rahman , Bicheng Xu , Leonid Sigal

The objective of Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is to localise the sounding objects within visual scenes by accurately predicting pixel-wise segmentation masks. To tackle the task, it involves a comprehensive consideration of both the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jinxiang Liu , Yu Wang , Chen Ju , Chaofan Ma , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie

Despite recent progress, vision-language encoders struggle with two core limitations: (1) weak alignment between language and dense vision features, which hurts tasks like open-vocabulary semantic segmentation; and (2) high token counts for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Savya Khosla , Sethuraman T , Aryan Chadha , Alex Schwing , Derek Hoiem

The goal of this paper is to learn strong lip reading models that can recognise speech in silent videos. Most prior works deal with the open-set visual speech recognition problem by adapting existing automatic speech recognition techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 K R Prajwal , Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Zisserman

The goal of Automatic Voice Over (AVO) is to generate speech in sync with a silent video given its text script. Recent AVO frameworks built upon text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) have shown impressive results. However, the current AVO learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Junchen Lu , Berrak Sisman , Mingyang Zhang , Haizhou Li

The human brain contextually exploits heterogeneous sensory information to efficiently perform cognitive tasks including vision and hearing. For example, during the cocktail party situation, the human auditory cortex contextually integrates…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Mandar Gogate , Kia Dashtipour , Amir Hussain

The goal of Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is to localize and segment the sounding source objects from video frames. Research on AVS suffers from data scarcity due to the high cost of fine-grained manual annotations. Recent works attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Kyungbok Lee , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan

Dense video captioning is a task of localizing interesting events from an untrimmed video and producing textual description (captions) for each localized event. Most of the previous works in dense video captioning are solely based on visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Vladimir Iashin , Esa Rahtu

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to localize sound-producing objects at the pixel level by jointly leveraging auditory and visual information. However, existing methods often suffer from multi-source entanglement and audio-visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Jingqi Tian , Yiheng Du , Haoji Zhang , Yuji Wang , Isaac Ning Lee , Xulong Bai , Tianrui Zhu , Jingxuan Niu , Yansong Tang

We present a novel approach to unsupervised learning for video object segmentation (VOS). Unlike previous work, our formulation allows to learn dense feature representations directly in a fully convolutional regime. We rely on uniform grid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Nikita Araslanov , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

Recent generalist vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities across diverse multimodal tasks. However, these models still struggle with fine-grained object-level understanding and grounding. In terms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Timothy Ossowski , Junjie Hu

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have demonstrated impressive zero-shot recognition capability, but still underperform in dense prediction tasks. Self-distillation recently is emerging as a promising approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Yunheng Li , Yuxuan Li , Quansheng Zeng , Wenhai Wang , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Recognizing the sounding objects in scenes is a longstanding objective in embodied AI, with diverse applications in robotics and AR/VR/MR. To that end, Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS), taking as condition an audio signal to identify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Artem Sokolov , Swapnil Bhosale , Xiatian Zhu

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

Existing audio-visual event localization (AVE) handles manually trimmed videos with only a single instance in each of them. However, this setting is unrealistic as natural videos often contain numerous audio-visual events with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Tiantian Geng , Teng Wang , Jinming Duan , Runmin Cong , Feng Zheng

Our objective is to transform a video into a set of discrete audio-visual objects using self-supervised learning. To this end, we introduce a model that uses attention to localize and group sound sources, and optical flow to aggregate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Owens , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Zisserman

The audio-visual segmentation (AVS) task aims to segment sounding objects from a given video. Existing works mainly focus on fusing audio and visual features of a given video to achieve sounding object masks. However, we observed that prior…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Chen Liu , Peike Li , Xingqun Qi , Hu Zhang , Lincheng Li , Dadong Wang , Xin Yu

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 speech enhancement (AVSE) methods use both audio and visual features for the task of speech enhancement and the use of visual features has been shown to be particularly effective in multi-speaker scenarios. In the majority of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Soumitro Chakrabarty , Emanuël A. P. Habets