High-Quality Sound Separation Across Diverse Categories via Visually-Guided Generative Modeling

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Hauptverfasser: Huang, Chao, Liang, Susan, Tian, Yapeng, Kumar, Anurag, Xu, Chenliang
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author Huang, Chao
Liang, Susan
Tian, Yapeng
Kumar, Anurag
Xu, Chenliang
author_facet Huang, Chao
Liang, Susan
Tian, Yapeng
Kumar, Anurag
Xu, Chenliang
contents We propose DAVIS, a Diffusion-based Audio-VIsual Separation framework that solves the audio-visual sound source separation task through generative learning. Existing methods typically frame sound separation as a mask-based regression problem, achieving significant progress. However, they face limitations in capturing the complex data distribution required for high-quality separation of sounds from diverse categories. In contrast, DAVIS circumvents these issues by leveraging potent generative modeling paradigms, specifically Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and the more recent Flow Matching (FM), integrated within a specialized Separation U-Net architecture. Our framework operates by synthesizing the desired separated sound spectrograms directly from a noise distribution, conditioned concurrently on the mixed audio input and associated visual information. The inherent nature of its generative objective makes DAVIS particularly adept at producing high-quality sound separations for diverse sound categories. We present comparative evaluations of DAVIS, encompassing both its DDPM and Flow Matching variants, against leading methods on the standard AVE and MUSIC datasets. The results affirm that both variants surpass existing approaches in separation quality, highlighting the efficacy of our generative framework for tackling the audio-visual source separation task.
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spellingShingle High-Quality Sound Separation Across Diverse Categories via Visually-Guided Generative Modeling
Huang, Chao
Liang, Susan
Tian, Yapeng
Kumar, Anurag
Xu, Chenliang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Sound
We propose DAVIS, a Diffusion-based Audio-VIsual Separation framework that solves the audio-visual sound source separation task through generative learning. Existing methods typically frame sound separation as a mask-based regression problem, achieving significant progress. However, they face limitations in capturing the complex data distribution required for high-quality separation of sounds from diverse categories. In contrast, DAVIS circumvents these issues by leveraging potent generative modeling paradigms, specifically Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and the more recent Flow Matching (FM), integrated within a specialized Separation U-Net architecture. Our framework operates by synthesizing the desired separated sound spectrograms directly from a noise distribution, conditioned concurrently on the mixed audio input and associated visual information. The inherent nature of its generative objective makes DAVIS particularly adept at producing high-quality sound separations for diverse sound categories. We present comparative evaluations of DAVIS, encompassing both its DDPM and Flow Matching variants, against leading methods on the standard AVE and MUSIC datasets. The results affirm that both variants surpass existing approaches in separation quality, highlighting the efficacy of our generative framework for tackling the audio-visual source separation task.
title High-Quality Sound Separation Across Diverse Categories via Visually-Guided Generative Modeling
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22063