AuralSAM2: Enabling SAM2 Hear Through Pyramid Audio-Visual Feature Prompting

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Autori principali: Liu, Yuyuan, Chen, Yuanhong, Wang, Chong, Han, Junlin, Wu, Junde, Peng, Can, Chen, Jingkun, Tian, Yu, Carneiro, Gustavo
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author Liu, Yuyuan
Chen, Yuanhong
Wang, Chong
Han, Junlin
Wu, Junde
Peng, Can
Chen, Jingkun
Tian, Yu
Carneiro, Gustavo
author_facet Liu, Yuyuan
Chen, Yuanhong
Wang, Chong
Han, Junlin
Wu, Junde
Peng, Can
Chen, Jingkun
Tian, Yu
Carneiro, Gustavo
contents Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) exhibits strong generalisation for promptable segmentation in video clips; however, its integration with the audio modality remains underexplored. Existing approaches either convert audio into visual prompts (e.g., boxes) via foundation models, or inject adapters into the image encoder for audio-visual fusion. Yet both directions fall short in human-in-the-loop scenarios due to limited prompt accuracy and increased inference overhead. In particular, these adapter-based methods often suffer from audio prompt dilution, where the signal gradually weakens as it propagates through the network. In this work, we propose AuralSAM2, which integrates audio into SAM2 while largely preserving its promptable segmentation capability. Its core module, AuralFuser, fuses audio and visual features to generate sparse and dense prompts. Guided by audio and built upon SAM2's feature pyramid, these prompts propagate auditory cues across visual layers, reinforcing cross-modal influence. To further align modalities, we introduce an audio-guided contrastive loss that emphasises auditory relevance in dominant visual features. Our method achieves notable accuracy gains on public benchmarks with only minimal impact on the interactive efficiency of promptable segmentation. Our code is available at https://github.com/yyliu01/AuralSAM2.
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spellingShingle AuralSAM2: Enabling SAM2 Hear Through Pyramid Audio-Visual Feature Prompting
Liu, Yuyuan
Chen, Yuanhong
Wang, Chong
Han, Junlin
Wu, Junde
Peng, Can
Chen, Jingkun
Tian, Yu
Carneiro, Gustavo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) exhibits strong generalisation for promptable segmentation in video clips; however, its integration with the audio modality remains underexplored. Existing approaches either convert audio into visual prompts (e.g., boxes) via foundation models, or inject adapters into the image encoder for audio-visual fusion. Yet both directions fall short in human-in-the-loop scenarios due to limited prompt accuracy and increased inference overhead. In particular, these adapter-based methods often suffer from audio prompt dilution, where the signal gradually weakens as it propagates through the network. In this work, we propose AuralSAM2, which integrates audio into SAM2 while largely preserving its promptable segmentation capability. Its core module, AuralFuser, fuses audio and visual features to generate sparse and dense prompts. Guided by audio and built upon SAM2's feature pyramid, these prompts propagate auditory cues across visual layers, reinforcing cross-modal influence. To further align modalities, we introduce an audio-guided contrastive loss that emphasises auditory relevance in dominant visual features. Our method achieves notable accuracy gains on public benchmarks with only minimal impact on the interactive efficiency of promptable segmentation. Our code is available at https://github.com/yyliu01/AuralSAM2.
title AuralSAM2: Enabling SAM2 Hear Through Pyramid Audio-Visual Feature Prompting
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01015