arXiv:2606. 10147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) can listen and see, but how do audio and visual signals actually travel through the network to shape an answer?
By Wish Suharitdamrong, Muhammad Awais, Xiatian Zhu, Sara Atito
arXiv:2606. 02724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-visual speaker tracking aims to localize and track active speakers by leveraging auditory and visual cues, enabling fine-grained, human-centric scene understanding.
By Yaoting Wang, Yun Zhou, Zipei Zhang, Henghui Ding
The paper introduces Cue2Narrate, a two‑stage pipeline that jointly predicts what visual events to narrate and when to insert the narration in long, untrimmed movie clips. It uses a dual‑head audio‑visual localizer to identify visual cue and narration windows, followed by a LoRA‑adapted vision‑language model that generates concise audio descriptions, trained with a Description Ranking Loss. The authors also present the LongLSMDC benchmark, comprising up to 8‑minute clips, and show that Cue2Narrate outperforms video‑only and audio‑only baselines by 5–12 points in average mAP and improves AD generation over fine‑tuned base VLMs.
By Akshita Gupta, Aditya Arora, Federico Tombari, Marcus Rohrbach, Anna Rohrbach
arXiv:2607. 13110v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Since the paradigm centered on convolutional neural networks and recurrent architectures was established in 2020, the fundamental backbone networks for audio-visual navigation have undergone no essential changes for more than five years, making them inadequate to support efficient representation of dynamic multimodal sequences.
By Yi Wang, Yinfeng Yu
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:2606. 07033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-vocabulary audio-visual event localization (OV-AVEL) jointly models audio-visual cues to recognize and temporally localize events, including categories unseen during training.
By Zhe Yang, Ruyi Zhang, Hongtao Chen, Wenrui Li, Hengyu Man, Wangmeng Zuo, Xiaopeng Fan
arXiv:2506. 03162v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid proliferation of surveillance cameras has increased the demand for automated violence detection.
By Damith Chamalke Senadeera, Muhammad Awais, Shibo Li, Dimitrios Kollias, Gregory Slabaugh
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:2609.25864v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Visual object removal can eliminate a target from video frames, yet its acoustic trace persists in the soundtrack, causing obvious audio-visual incon...
By Xinyue Guo, Jianxuan Yang, Daiguo Zhou, Jiagao Hu, Yuxuan Chen, Fei Wang, Jian Luan
Audio Description (AD) provides spoken narration of visual events during dialogue gaps, making movies accessible to visually impaired audiences. The problem requires determining both what (which visua...
arXiv:2607. 25543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative AI has rapidly expanded audio-visual forgery beyond human-centric deepfakes into general scenes.
By Jielun Peng, Yabin Wang, Yaqi Li, Jincheng Liu, Xiaopeng Hong, Athanasios V. Vasilakos
The paper introduces the Neural Action Codec (NAC), a convolutional encoder‑decoder architecture that treats short robot action trajectories as multi‑channel 1D signals and compresses them using a multi‑scale residual vector quantization (RVQGAN) model. NAC replaces traditional discrete action tokenizers with a compact, ordered token space via offset codebooks, allowing standard autoregressive policies to operate over short, structured sequences while a Vocos‑style decoder reconstructs the actions. Experiments on LIBERO‑10, RoboMimic, and real‑world manipulation tasks show that NAC achieves higher reconstruction fidelity and better average success rates than existing binning, FAST, and VQ‑based tokenizers at comparable or improved compression rates.
By Ahad Jawaid, Yu Xiang