BinauralVAE is an open‑source pipeline that reconstructs spatial audio using various Variational Autoencoder architectures, including complex‑valued variants, to learn latent representations of binaural signals. The project builds on realistic acoustic data from a simulated robot navigating an environment, providing a foundation for audio‑centric world models. It aims to map the causal link between navigational actions and their acoustic outcomes, positioning sound as a complementary modality for spatial awareness.
arXiv:2609.23407v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans can effortlessly localize the direction of a sound source and integrate it with visual cues for reasoning, yet this remains challenging for em...
arXiv:2609.23407v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Humans can effortlessly localize the direction of a sound source and integrate it with visual cues for reasoning, yet this remains challengin...
FloorSAV is a framework that enhances audio‑visual large language models (AV‑LLMs) by embedding a dynamic 2D floormap derived from 3D point clouds, camera trajectories, spatial audio cues, and object landmarks. The floormap is fed into the AV‑LLM as a synchronized stream with egocentric video, enabling the model to jointly reason over visual, auditory, and geometric information in a single inference. The authors also introduce SAVED‑Bench, a benchmark for spatial reasoning tasks, and show that FloorSAV improves AV‑LLM performance on both SAVED‑Bench and SAVVY‑Bench, with ground‑truth floormaps highlighting its potential.
arXiv:2609.38444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text- and image-conditioned world generators can create visually rich 3D environments, yet these worlds often remain silent or rely on soundtracks synt...
arXiv:2610.14077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied Audio-Visual Navigation (AVN) requires an agent to locate sound targets by jointly leveraging visual and auditory cues. While prior work has...
The paper introduces HLR-AVSceneQA, a benchmark that tests audio‑visual large language models on a hear‑localize‑reason hierarchy, assessing recognition of sounds, localization in egocentric and allocentric views, and reasoning about their relation to the visual scene. It also presents HLR‑LLM, a model that adds a binaural spatial audio branch to a strong audio‑visual foundation and is trained with a curriculum including chain‑of‑thought supervision for multi‑step spatial reasoning. Experiments show that existing AV‑LLMs are limited in spatial grounding and relational reasoning, while HLR‑LLM markedly improves spatial audio‑visual scene understanding without hurting semantic perception.
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.
arXiv:2610.08760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in world models have enabled increasingly realistic visual synthesis. However, these generated environments remain largely silent. Br...
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.
arXiv:2609.38123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World simulation is inherently multisensory, demanding synchronized visual and acoustic dynamics in real time. Yet prevailing interactive world models...
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.
The paper introduces CTAN, a Cycle-Temporal Attention Network for audio‑visual embodied navigation. It proposes an Audio‑Visual Reconstruction Cross‑Attention module that uses bidirectional cycle‑consistency to strengthen spatial semantics across visual and acoustic modalities, and a Temporal Cross‑Modal Memory to fuse real‑time multimodal features with historical context. Experiments on Replica and Matterport3D show that CTAN outperforms prior methods in success rate, SPL, and scene navigation accuracy.