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Active speaker detection requires a solid integration of multi-modal cues. While individual modalities can approximate a solution, accurate predictions can only be achieved by explicitly fusing the audio and visual features and modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Juan León-Alcázar , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Ali Thabet , Bernard Ghanem

With the recent advancements in AI, Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVA) have become a ubiquitous part of every home. Going forward, we are witnessing a confluence of vision, speech and dialog system technologies that are enabling the IVAs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Shachi H Kumar , Eda Okur , Saurav Sahay , Juan Jose Alvarado Leanos , Jonathan Huang , Lama Nachman

Affordance information about a scene provides important clues as to what actions may be executed in pursuit of meeting a specified goal state. Thus, integrating affordance-based reasoning into symbolic action plannning pipelines would…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Fu-Jen Chu , Ruinian Xu , Chao Tang , Patricio A. Vela

In this work, we tackle one-shot visual search of object parts. Given a single reference image of an object with annotated affordance regions, we segment semantically corresponding parts within a target scene. We propose AffCorrs, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Denis Hadjivelichkov , Sicelukwanda Zwane , Marc Peter Deisenroth , Lourdes Agapito , Dimitrios Kanoulas

Audio and visual signals typically occur simultaneously, and humans possess an innate ability to correlate and synchronize information from these two modalities. Recently, a challenging problem known as Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yuxuan Wang , Jinchao Zhu , Feng Dong , Shuyue Zhu

Short Term object-interaction Anticipation consists in detecting the location of the next active objects, the noun and verb categories of the interaction, as well as the time to contact from the observation of egocentric video. This ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Lorenzo Mur Labadia , Ruben Martinez-Cantin , Jose J. Guerrero , Giovanni M. Farinella , Antonino Furnari

Motivated by the intuitive understanding humans have about the space of possible interactions, and the ease with which they can generalize this understanding to previously unseen scenes, we develop an approach for learning visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Homanga Bharadhwaj , Abhinav Gupta , Shubham Tulsiani

Video encompasses both visual and auditory data, creating a perceptually rich experience where these two modalities complement each other. As such, videos are a valuable type of media for the investigation of the interplay between audio and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Kun Su , Xiulong Liu , Eli Shlizerman

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) involves localizing target objects in 3D point clouds based on natural language. While prior work has made strides using textual descriptions, leveraging spoken language-known as Audio-based 3D Visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Duc Cao-Dinh , Khai Le-Duc , Anh Dao , Bach Phan Tat , Chris Ngo , Duy M. H. Nguyen , Nguyen X. Khanh , Thanh Nguyen-Tang

Grounding 3D object affordance is a task that locates objects in 3D space where they can be manipulated, which links perception and action for embodied intelligence. For example, for an intelligent robot, it is necessary to accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 He Zhu , Quyu Kong , Kechun Xu , Xunlong Xia , Bing Deng , Jieping Ye , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

The video grounding (VG) task aims to locate the queried action or event in an untrimmed video based on rich linguistic descriptions. Existing proposal-free methods are trapped in complex interaction between video and query, overemphasizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Kun Li , Dan Guo , Meng Wang

Lexical semantics and cognitive science point to affordances (i.e. the actions that objects support) as critical for understanding and representing nouns and verbs. However, study of these semantic features has not yet been integrated with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Jack Merullo , Dylan Ebert , Carsten Eickhoff , Ellie Pavlick

When humans perceive the world, they naturally integrate multiple audio-visual tasks within dynamic, real-world scenes. However, current works such as event localization, parsing, segmentation and question answering are mostly explored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Guangyao Li , Xin Wang , Wenwu Zhu

Training audio-to-image generative models requires an abundance of diverse audio-visual pairs that are semantically aligned. Such data is almost always curated from in-the-wild videos, given the cross-modal semantic correspondence that is…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Darius Petermann , Mahdi M. Kalayeh

Despite the recent success of modern imitation learning methods in robot manipulation, their performance is often constrained by geometric variations due to limited data diversity. Leveraging powerful 3D generative models and vision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiawei Zhang , Kaizhe Hu , Yingqian Huang , Yuanchen Ju , Zhengrong Xue , Huazhe Xu

In open-vocabulary mobile manipulation (OVMM), task success often hinges on the selection of an appropriate base placement for the robot. Existing approaches typically navigate to proximity-based regions without considering affordances,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Tzu-Jung Lin , Jia-Fong Yeh , Hung-Ting Su , Chung-Yi Lin , Yi-Ting Chen , Winston H. Hsu

Grounding object affordance is fundamental to robotic manipulation as it establishes the critical link between perception and action among interacting objects. However, prior works predominantly focus on predicting single-object affordance,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Tongxuan Tian , Xuhui Kang , Yen-Ling Kuo

Target speech extraction aims to extract, based on a given conditioning cue, a target speech signal that is corrupted by interfering sources, such as noise or competing speakers. Building upon the achievements of the state-of-the-art (SOTA)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Zexu Pan , Gordon Wichern , Yoshiki Masuyama , Francois G. Germain , Sameer Khurana , Chiori Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

We propose a contrastive conditional latent diffusion model for audio-visual segmentation (AVS) to thoroughly investigate the impact of audio, where the correlation between audio and the final segmentation map is modeled to guarantee the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yuxin Mao , Jing Zhang , Mochu Xiang , Yunqiu Lv , Dong Li , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai

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