arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

From Visual Cues to Spoken Narration: Rethinking Audio Description

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 AI
Aug 11

MADBench: A Benchmark for Modality-Aware Audio Deepfake Detection

arXiv:2608. 09593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in speech synthesis and audio generation have made high-fidelity acoustic forgery low-cost and difficult to attribute, enabling a realistic attack scenario in which speech and background audio are independently manipulated over otherwise authentic video.

By Yanqiu Li, Yang Xiao, Jisheng Bai, Bin Chen, Hong Jia, Ting Dang
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 9

BabelFake: A Multilingual Audio-Visual DeepFake Benchmark

BabelFake is a multilingual audio‑visual DeepFake benchmark featuring 399,000 clips from 496 consenting participants across five languages (English, German, Italian, French, Spanish). The dataset pairs 11 modern video manipulation methods with 4 voice‑cloning engines, covering both visual‑only and joint audio‑visual attacks. Experiments show that detection difficulty varies with the audio‑visual pairing, with significant performance drops when authentic audio is retained, and that cross‑language and demographic factors influence detector performance.

By Carlotta Segna, Joel Tschesche, Anna Rohrbach
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

Video-HolmesV2: Can MLLMs Reason with Spatio-Temporal Audio-Visual Evidence in Long Videos?

Video-HolmesV2 is a new benchmark that tests multimodal large language models on their ability to reason with spatio‑temporal audio‑visual evidence in long videos. It requires models to justify answers with precise evidence, uses a multi‑model cross‑verification pipeline and a spatio‑temporal evidence‑aware metric, and introduces an audio‑text guided token compression framework to reduce long‑context noise. In evaluations, even strong proprietary models score below 60% while the proposed approach outperforms comparable open‑source omni‑models.

By Zhaoyang Wei, Zipeng Wang, Yushe Cao, Chenhui Qiang, Shuaibing Cheng, Xuesong Yang, Sen Nie, Bowen Jiang, Wenchao Ding, Yanchao Hao, Zheng Wei, Xuehui Yu, Zhenjun Han