Flowgrad: Using Motion for Visual Sound Source Localization

Rajsuryan Singh, Pablo Zinemanas, Xavier Serra, Juan Pablo Bello, Magdalena Fuentes

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Abstract

Most recent work in visual sound source localization relies on semantic audio-visual representations learned in a self-supervised manner and, by design, excludes temporal information present in videos. While it proves to be effective for widely used benchmark datasets, the method falls short for challenging scenarios like urban traffic. This work introduces temporal context into the state-of-the-art methods for sound source localization in urban scenes using optical flow to encode motion information. An analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of our methods helps us better understand the problem of visual sound source localization and sheds light on open challenges for audio-visual scene understanding. The code and pretrained models are publicly available at https://github.com/rrrajjjj/flowgrad

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728163277
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2023 - Rhodes Island, Greece
Duration: Jun 4 2023Jun 10 2023

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2023-June
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2023
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityRhodes Island
Period6/4/236/10/23

Keywords

  • Sound source localization
  • audio-visual urban scene understanding
  • explainability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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