arXiv:2402. 01591v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spatial sound reasoning is a fundamental human skill, enabling us to navigate and interpret our surroundings based on sound.
By Zhisheng Zheng, Puyuan Peng, Ziyang Ma, Xie Chen, Eunsol Choi, David Harwath
arXiv:2608. 09435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding dynamic sound sources requires jointly determining what produces a sound, where the source is located, and how it moves over time.
By Zhi Zeng, Cheng Zhang, Zesheng Yang, Rendong Pi, Jiaying Wu, Di Zhang, Zihan Ma, Guodong Li, Zhou Yang, Yu Xiang, Yifei Zheng, Minnan Luo
Understanding dynamic sound sources requires jointly determining what produces a sound, where the source is located, and how it moves over time. Yet existing audio-language models often represent clips as global acoustic events, while vision-language models lack the spatial audio cues needed to localize and track individual sources.
arXiv:2606. 14141v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sound events are entities with semantic identities, locations, and trajectories, but current audio-language models usually reason about clips as global event content.
By Oh Hyun-Bin, Kazuki Shimada, Yuhta Takida, Kim Sung-Bin, Toshimitsu Uesaka, Takashi Shibuya, Kyeongyoon Lee, Tae-Hyun Oh, Yuki Mitsufuji
arXiv:2607. 24786v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Weak supervision sets a practical regime for audio-visual sound source localization as dense spatial annotations are costly to obtain at scale.
By Hugo Malard, Michel Olvera, Sanjeel Parekh, Ga\"el Richard, Slim Essid, St\'ephane Lathuili\`ere
arXiv:2607. 15265v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present SceneBind, an omni-modal representation of realistic scenes with joint semantic and 3D spatial understanding across vision, audio and language.
By Mingfei Chen, Zijun Cui, Ruoke Zhang, Hyeonggon Ryu, Eli Shlizerman
arXiv:2601. 21124v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current multimodal LLMs process audio as a mono stream, ignoring the rich spatial information essential for embodied AI.
By Artem Dementyev, Wazeer Zulfikar, Sinan Hersek, Pascal Getreuer, Anurag Kumar, Vivek Kumar
Recent Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) have achieved remarkable progress in audio perceptual tasks across individual acoustic layers, including speech, sound, and music. However, existing benchmarks predominantly evaluate these layers in isolation, overlooking the complex contextual relationships that arise when multiple acoustic sources co-occur in real-world auditory scenes.
arXiv:2607. 10299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large-scale multimodal models have drivenremarkable progress in vision-language tasks; however, comprehensiveomni-modal understanding remains under-explored, largely due to thescarcity of datasets with rich, explicitly aligned auditory cues.
By Kaiying Yan, Luoyi Sun, Xiao Zhou, Weidi Xie
arXiv:2606. 27751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This report investigates the extension of pretrained General-Purpose Audio Tagging (GP-AT) models toward spatially grounded Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD).
By Stefano Giacomelli, Stefano Damiano, Claudia Rinaldi, Fabio Graziosi, Toon van Waterschoot
arXiv:2608. 09227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Omnimodal language models (OLMs) enable unified audio-visual understanding, but processing long joint token sequences makes inference computationally prohibitive.
By Puneet Mathur, Manan Suri, Dinesh Manocha
Omnimodal language models (OLMs) enable unified audio-visual understanding, but processing long joint token sequences makes inference computationally prohibitive. While recent token compression methods attempt to alleviate this burden, compressing modalities in isolation often destroys the temporal cross-modal anchors necessary for coherent reasoning.