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Hear The Flow: Optical Flow-Based Self-Supervised Visual Sound Source Localization

  • SUNY Buffalo

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Abstract

Learning to localize the sound source in videos without explicit annotations is a novel area of audio-visual research. Existing work in this area focuses on creating attention maps to capture the correlation between the two modalities to localize the source of the sound. In a video, oftentimes, the objects exhibiting movement are the ones generating the sound. In this work, we capture this characteristic by modeling the optical flow in a video as a prior to better aid in localizing the sound source. We further demonstrate that the addition of flow-based attention substantially improves visual sound source localization. Finally, we benchmark our method on standard sound source localization datasets and achieve state-of-the-art performance on the Soundnet Flickr and VGG Sound Source datasets. Code: https://github.com/denfed/heartheflow.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2023 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2277-2286
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781665493468
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event23rd IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2023 - Waikoloa, United States
Duration: Jan 3 2023Jan 7 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2023 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2023

Conference

Conference23rd IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWaikoloa
Period01/3/2301/7/23

Keywords

  • Algorithms: Vision + language and/or other modalities
  • Machine learning architectures
  • and algorithms (including transfer, low-shot, semi-, self-, and un-supervised learning)
  • formulations

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