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Model learns to add and remove sounds in video scenes

AVIO: Learning to Add and Remove Sounding Objects in Audiovisual Scenes

Abstract: Adding or removing a sounding object requires coordinated changes to visual content and sound while preserving the surrounding scene. Yet paired supervision for localized non-speech audiovisual editing remains limited, as visual and acoustic edits must target the same object and isolate its sound from overlapping sources. To address this gap, we introduce \textit{AVIOBench}, a dataset comprising 37.9 hours of paired audiovisual examples spanning 1{,}878 target-object names. AVIOBench links the visual presence and acoustic contribution of each target object through a shared identity and visual mask. Our automated pipeline uses visual grounding and cross-modal consistency to select target-sound removal candidates, then jointly refines the audiovisual pairs to improve perceptual quality and cross-modal consistency. Building on this dataset, we propose \textit{AVIO}, which adapts a pretrained text-to audiovisual generation model through source-conditioned feature modulation to jointly learn object addition and removal. A reference-frame curriculum gradually reduces reference conditioning during training, enabling one model to perform instruction-only editing with optional visual guidance. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations demonstrate effective audiovisual object removal and addition, with optional reference guidance providing appearance and placement control for addition.

Tue 29 SeptArtificial Intelligence
The gist
Editing videos to add or remove specific sounds and objects is hard because the changes must match both the visuals and the audio perfectly. The authors created AVIOBench, a data collection linking objects with their sounds and locations, to help teach computers this skill. They then developed AVIO, a model that can learn from AVIOBench to add or remove sounding objects in audiovisual scenes using instructions and optional visual hints. This approach helps the model make coordinated changes that look and sound natural.
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