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:2601. 18904v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative AI for speech and audio is increasingly expected to serve users across languages, cultures, and communities, yet current auditory Large Language Models (LLMs) are still largely trained and evaluated on high-resource data.
By Haolong Zheng, Siyin Wang, Zengrui Jin, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
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:2508. 00307v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce a U-net model for 360{\deg} acoustic source localization formulated as a spherical semantic segmentation task.
By Belman Jahir Rodriguez, Sergio F. Chevtchenko, Marcelo Herrera Martinez, Yeshwanth Bethi, Saeed Afshar
arXiv:2606. 19325v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing multi-speaker dialogue systems bind speakers to utterances through structured supervision: per-turn tags, multi-stream transcriptions, or learnable speaker embeddings.
By Michael Finkelson, Daniel Segal, Eitan Richardson, Shahar Armon, Nani Goldring, Poriya Panet, Nir Zabari, Benjamin Brazowski, Or Patashnik, Yoav HaCohen
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
Existing multi-speaker dialogue systems bind speakers to utterances through structured supervision: per-turn tags, multi-stream transcriptions, or learnable speaker embeddings. These systems operate within speech-only pipelines that produce clean vocal sequences without the ambient texture of real conversations.
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:2511. 13487v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This study presents a systematic evaluation of time-frequency feature design for binaural sound source localization (SSL), focusing on how feature selection influences model performance across diverse conditions.
By Davoud Shariat Panah, Alessandro Ragano, Dan Barry, Jan Skoglund, Andrew Hines
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:2606. 15751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-Language Models (ALMs) have shown remarkable success in zero-shot audio classification by aligning audio waveforms with text.
By Hyebin Cho, Jaehyuk Jang, Changick Kim, Joon Son Chung
arXiv:2512. 10120v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: General-purpose audio representations aim to map acoustically variable instances of the same event to nearby points, resolving content identity in a zero-shot setting.
By Maris Basha, Anja Zai, Sabine Stoll, Richard Hahnloser