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Detecting sound source objects within visual observation is important for autonomous robots to comprehend surrounding environments. Since sounding objects have a large variety with different appearances in our living environments, labeling…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Yoshiki Masuyama , Yoshiaki Bando , Kohei Yatabe , Yoko Sasaki , Masaki Onishi , Yasuhiro Oikawa

Video action recognition is a challenging but important task for understanding and discovering what the video does. However, acquiring annotations for a video is costly, and semi-supervised learning (SSL) has been studied to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Seokun Kang , Taehwan Kim

While the estimation of what sound sources are, when they occur, and from where they originate has been well-studied, the estimation of how loud these sound sources are has been often overlooked. Current solutions to this task, which we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-02 Aurora Cramer , Mark Cartwright , Fatemeh Pishdadian , Juan Pablo Bello

How to visually localize multiple sound sources in unconstrained videos is a formidable problem, especially when lack of the pairwise sound-object annotations. To solve this problem, we develop a two-stage audiovisual learning framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Rui Qian , Di Hu , Heinrich Dinkel , Mengyue Wu , Ning Xu , Weiyao Lin

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

The goal of this work is to localize sound sources in visual scenes with a self-supervised approach. Contrastive learning in the context of sound source localization leverages the natural correspondence between audio and visual signals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Sooyoung Park , Arda Senocak , Joon Son Chung

Recent studies on learning-based sound source localization have mainly focused on the localization performance perspective. However, prior work and existing benchmarks overlook a crucial aspect: cross-modal interaction, which is essential…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Arda Senocak , Hyeonggon Ryu , Junsik Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh , Hanspeter Pfister , Joon Son Chung

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

Visual sound source localization poses a significant challenge in identifying the semantic region of each sounding source within a video. Existing self-supervised and weakly supervised source localization methods struggle to accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tanvir Mahmud , Yapeng Tian , Diana Marculescu

Sound source localization (SSL) is essential for many speech-processing applications. Deep learning models have achieved high performance, but often fail when the training and inference environments differ. Adapting SSL models to dynamic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Yang Xiao , Rohan Kumar Das

Sound source localization (SSL) adds a spatial dimension to auditory perception, allowing a system to pinpoint the origin of speech, machinery noise, warning tones, or other acoustic events, capabilities that facilitate robot navigation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Reza Jalayer , Masoud Jalayer , Amirali Baniasadi

We propose a self-supervised approach for learning to perform audio source separation in videos based on natural language queries, using only unlabeled video and audio pairs as training data. A key challenge in this task is learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Reuben Tan , Arijit Ray , Andrea Burns , Bryan A. Plummer , Justin Salamon , Oriol Nieto , Bryan Russell , Kate Saenko

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

Humans have the ability to utilize visual cues, such as lip movements and visual scenes, to enhance auditory perception, particularly in noisy environments. However, current Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or Audio-Visual Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Lakshmipathi Balaji , Karan Singla

Visual and audio events simultaneously occur and both attract attention. However, most existing saliency prediction works ignore the influence of audio and only consider vision modality. In this paper, we propose a multitask learning method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Minglang Qiao , Yufan Liu , Mai Xu , Xin Deng , Bing Li , Weiming Hu , Ali Borji

The objective of the sound source localization task is to enable machines to detect the location of sound-making objects within a visual scene. While the audio modality provides spatial cues to locate the sound source, existing approaches…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sung Jin Um , Dongjin Kim , Jung Uk Kim

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has grown in interest within the speech processing community, since it produces representations that are useful for many downstream tasks. SSL uses global and contextual methods to produce robust…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Subrina Sultana , Donald S. Williamson

Sound source localization is a typical and challenging task that predicts the location of sound sources in a video. Previous single-source methods mainly used the audio-visual association as clues to localize sounding objects in each image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Shentong Mo , Yapeng Tian

Sound source localization (SSL) technology plays a crucial role in various application areas such as fault diagnosis, speech separation, and vibration noise reduction. Although beamforming algorithms are widely used in SSL, their resolution…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Wenbo Ma , Yan Lu , Yijun Liu

Data-based and learning-based sound source localization (SSL) has shown promising results in challenging conditions, and is commonly set as a classification or a regression problem. Regression-based approaches have certain advantages over…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Sharath Adavanne , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen