両耳音響による発音インスタンスの曖昧性解消を用いた音声視覚セグメンテーション
Which One Is Sounding? Binaural Sounding Instance Disambiguation for Audio-Visual Segmentation
両耳の音響手がかり(両耳間差)を画像平面の空間応答に変換し、同クラスの複数候補の中から実際に音を出しているインスタンスを特定する音声視覚セグメンテーション手法を提案した。
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著者: Haoze Ma, Yidi Li, Yu Ma, Pengyuan Zhao, Yi Shi, Bin Ren, Yanwen Guo, Dimitrios Kanoulas
分類: cs.AI, cs.SD
原文アブストラクト
Existing audio-visual segmentation methods mainly predict sound-related regions or category masks and often fail to identify the sounding instance when multiple same-class candidates coexist. Recent audio-visual instance segmentation methods address instance-level prediction but rely largely on motion and cross-frame association, which may become unreliable under sparse observations or inconspicuous motion. To this end, we introduce binaural audio, whose interaural differences encode source-direction information, to provide spatial constraints for distinguishing the sounding instance among same-class visual candidates. We propose Binaural Sounding Instance Disambiguation for Audio-Visual Segmentation (BiSID-AVS), which progressively refines category-level candidate responses into a mask of the true sounding instance. BiSID-AVS first grounds category-consistent candidate regions through audio prompting, then projects binaural cues into an image-plane spatial response map, and finally refines the true sounding instance through dual-level spatial conditioning at the feature and decoder levels. Experiments on the binaurally extended AVS-Synthetic benchmark and Habitat-AVS dataset for robotic indoor perception show that BiSID-AVS achieves the best performance on the multi-candidate subsets, improving instance-level mIoU by 35.19 and 41.21 percentage points, respectively, while substantially reducing false activation on non-sounding same-class regions.