arXiv AI

PRISM-Bench: An Audio-Centric Diagnostic Benchmark for Text-to-Audio-Video Generation

PRISM‑Bench is an audio‑centric diagnostic benchmark for text‑to‑audio‑video generation, built from 900 human‑verified samples. It evaluates audio along two axes—audio type (speech, music, sound) and sound‑source visibility (on‑screen vs. off‑screen)—across four perceptual dimensions (audio‑visual coherence, audio quality, audio expressiveness, and prompt following) using 35 fine‑grained criteria. The benchmark employs an enhanced MLLM‑as‑a‑Judge protocol that aligns strongly with human raters, revealing a performance gap between frontier and open‑source T2AV models and highlighting overfitting to perceptual fidelity while struggling with complex grounding and control tasks, especially for music and synchronized on‑screen audio.

arXiv AI
Oct 15

PhyAVBench: A Challenging Audio Physics-Sensitivity Benchmark for Physically Grounded Text-to-Audio-Video Generation

arXiv:2512.23994v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-audio-video (T2AV) generation is central to applications such as filmmaking and world modeling. However, current models often fail to...

By Tianxin Xie, Wentao Lei, Kai Jiang, Guanjie Huang, Pengfei Zhang, Chunhui Zhang, Fengji Ma, Haoyu He, Han Zhang, Jiangshan He, Jinting Wang, Linghan Fang, Lufei Gao, Orkesh Ablet, Peihua Zhang, Ruolin Hu, Shengyu Li, Weilin Lin, Xiaoyang Feng, Xinyue Yang, Yan Rong, Yanyun Wang, Zihang Shao, Zelin Zhao, Chenxing Li, Shan Yang, Wenfu Wang, Meng Yu, Dong Yu, Li Liu
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Do Joint Audio-Video Generation Models Understand Physics?

arXiv:2605. 07061v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Joint audio-video generation models are rapidly approaching professional production quality, raising a central question: do they understand audio-visual physics, or merely generate plausible sounds and frames that violate real-world consistency?

By Zijun Cui, Xiulong Liu, Hao Fang, Mingwei Xu, Jiageng Liu, Zexin Xu, Weiguo Pian, Shijian Deng, Feiyu Du, Chenming Ge, Yapeng Tian
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Adding Voice Cloning to Text-to-Audio-Video Models with a Single Zero-Initialised Layer

arXiv:2608. 15690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-audio-video (T2AV) generation models produce a video and its soundtrack from a textual description, but offer no control over whose voice speaks in the output.

By Ivan Mikheev, Viacheslav Vasilev, Anna Dmitrienko, Alexey Letunovskiy, Ivan Kirillov, Kirill Chernyshev, Denis Dimitrov
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

StreamAV-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Streaming Audio-Video Generation

StreamAV-Bench is the first comprehensive benchmark designed for streaming audio‑video generation, addressing the limitations of existing benchmarks that focus on completed sequences. It introduces a unified evaluation framework with a progressive track for instruction adherence and long‑horizon stability, and an interactive track for responsive interaction and state retention. The benchmark includes 32 fine‑grained, expert‑verified evaluation cases and evaluates 13 representative systems, revealing temporal drift in progressive generation and responsiveness bottlenecks in interactive control.

By Kaiqi Liu, Haoxuan Zeng, Jingqi Liu, Jiacong Fang, Ziqi Cai, Yunyao Mao, Henglin Liu, Yu Sheng, Shuchen Weng, Boxin Shi
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 19

Semantic-Critical Regions for Video-to-Audio Generation

The paper introduces SCR-V2A, a video-to-audio generation framework that focuses on Semantic-Critical Regions (SCRs)—localized visual cues directly related to sound events. SCR-V2A first identifies these regions via sound-related visual localization, then encodes them with an adapter-based dual visual encoder to produce a control representation that captures both global context and fine-grained sound evidence. This representation conditions an audio generation model, and experiments on in-domain and out-of-domain benchmarks show improved distribution matching and audio quality with few trainable parameters.

By Yun Fang, Wei Guo, Zhuonan Liang, Heng Wang, Weidong Cai
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 30

ControlFoley: Unified and Controllable Video-to-Audio Generation with Cross-Modal Conflict Handling

arXiv:2604.15086v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in video-to-audio (V2A) generation enable high-quality audio synthesis from visual content, yet achieving robust and fine-gra...

By Jianxuan Yang, Xinyue Guo, Zhi Cheng, Kai Wang, Lipan Zhang, Jinjie Hu, Qiang Ji, Yihua Cao, Yihao Meng, Zhaoyue Cui, Mengmei Liu, Meng Meng, Jian Luan
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 9

OmniCapBench: A Deep-Structured Evaluation Framework for Fine-Grained Audio-Visual Captioning

OmniCapBench is a new deep‑structured evaluation framework for audio‑visual captioning that replaces free‑form text predictions with sets of atomic, verifiable units across entity references, visual shots, and audio events. It uses deterministic constraint checks and localized LLM‑based semantic comparisons to provide reliable, fine‑grained scoring. With 786 densely annotated videos, the benchmark can distinguish perception errors such as temporal grounding failures, identity drift, cross‑modal misalignment, and hallucinations, revealing that current multimodal large language models excel at local perception but struggle with long‑horizon audio‑visual reasoning.

By Zhongyu Yang, Jiale Tao, Ruitao Chen, Zuhao Yang, Yingfang Yuan, Xueliang Zhao, Auden, Kai Wang, Shuai Shao, Biao Wang, Steve Yves, Qinglin Lu
arXiv AI
Jul 14

A Production-Oriented Framework for Evaluation of SFX Generation

arXiv:2607. 09973v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial sound design requires audio generation systems that not only produce realistic audio, but also preserve the perceptual identity of a reference, support controllable variation, and remain efficient for practical workflows.

By M\'elodie Desbos, Yara Bahram, Eric Granger, Mohammadhadi Shateri