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The Sound of Pixels (arxiv.org)
1 point by telotortium on Jul 9, 2018 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: From unlabeled videos where picture and sound are in sync, it learns which parts make which sounds and splits the audio into one piece per source. It separated mixed sounds better than audio-only separation, and lets you turn each source's volume up or down.

Abstract

We introduce PixelPlayer, a system that, by leveraging large amounts of unlabeled videos, learns to locate image regions which produce sounds and separate the input sounds into a set of components that represents the sound from each pixel. Our approach capitalizes on the natural synchronization of the visual and audio modalities to learn models that jointly parse sounds and images, without requiring additional manual supervision. Experimental results on a newly collected MUSIC dataset show that our proposed Mix-and-Separate framework outperforms several baselines on source separation. Qualitative results suggest our model learns to ground sounds in vision, enabling applications such as independently adjusting the volume of sound sources.

Hang Zhao, Chuang Gan, Andrew Rouditchenko, Carl Vondrick, Josh McDermott, Antonio Torralba
arXiv:1804.03160 · cs.CV, cs.SD, eess.AS · submitted Apr 9, 2018 · updated Oct 14, 2018
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