arXiv:2607. 23293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image-source-method (ISM)-based room impulse response (RIR) simulation is a useful and physically interpretable tool for acoustic scene modeling, but full-order ISM becomes computationally expensive as the reflection order and room complexity increase.
By Shaoheng Xu, Chunyi Sun, Jihui Zhang, Amy Bastine, Prasanga N. Samarasinghe, Thushara D. Abhayapala
arXiv:2606. 31552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Room-acoustic simulations are widely used to augment training data for deep-learning-based speech enhancement.
By Georg G\"otz, Alessia Milo, Steinar Gu{\dh}j\'onsson, Daniel Gert Nielsen, Jesper Pedersen, Finnur Pind
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. 02343v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans can selectively attend to a target sound and estimate its direction in complex scenarios, whereas such selective localization remains challenging for current deep learning-based systems.
By Ziyang Jiang, Yu Chen, Zexu Pan, Xinyuan Qian, Bowen Xing, Ivor W. Tsang, Xu-Cheng Yin, Haizhou Li
Humans can selectively attend to a target sound and estimate its direction in complex scenarios, whereas such selective localization remains challenging for current deep learning-based systems. Sound source localization (SSL) has achieved remarkable success with deep learning, yet most methods localize all active sources without selectivity.
arXiv:2606. 10738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models mainly process audio as monaural signals, thereby discarding the spatial cues contained in spatial audio for sound localization, spatial relation reasoning, and spatial scene understanding.
By Zhiyuan Zhu, Yixuan Chen, Yiwen Shao, Wenxiang Guo, Changhao Pan, Yu Zhang, Yuxiang Wang, Wei Liu, Houhua Zhang, Chengkuan Zeng, Wenbo Cheng, Yunxi Liu, Rui Yang, Steve Yves, Liefeng Bo, Zhou Zhao
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. 16285v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is a fundamental task in multimodal perception that performs pixel-level segmentation of sounding objects in videos by leveraging both visual and audio cues.
By Zhaojin Fu, Yuyang Hong, Qi Yang, Zili Wang, Kun Ding, Shiming Xiang, Bin Fan
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
arXiv:2602. 01394v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper addresses the challenge of audio-visual single-microphone speech separation and enhancement in the presence of real-world environmental noise.
By Yochai Yemini, Yoav Ellinson, Rami Ben-Ari, Sharon Gannot, Ethan Fetaya
arXiv:2606. 29031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In regulated domains such as banking and healthcare, where privacy constraints make real speech costly to collect and retain, synthetic speech from modern text-to-speech (TTS) is an appealing alternative for training automatic speech recognition (ASR) without exposing sensitive customer recordings.
By Yanis Labrak, Dairazalia Sanchez-Cortes, Sergio Burdisso, S\'everin Baroudi, Shashi Kumar, Esa\'u Villatoro-Tello, Srikanth Madikeri, Manjunath K E, Old\v{r}ich Plchot, Kadri Hacio\u{g}lu, Petr Motlicek, Andreas Stolcke
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