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most citedSTARSS22: A dataset of spatial recordings of real scenes with spatiotemporal annotations of sound events

18 citations · 31 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.SD2026

Self-Supervised Object-Centric Representation for Multi-Task Audio Analysis

Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam, Tuomas Virtanen

This paper studies the capability of an object-centric audio representation to support multiple downstream tasks within a unified framework. The object-centric model is trained in…

cs.CV2026

AVPS-360: A Spatial Audio-Visual Benchmark for Instance Segmentation and Tracking of Sound-Producing Persons

Yifu Sun, Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam, Tuomas Virtanen +1

Audio-visual instance segmentation (AVIS) segments and tracks individual sound-producing objects in videos. Existing benchmarks predominantly use monaural audio, which lacks inter-…

cs.SD2026

Speaker head orientation estimation with a single microphone array using phase spectrogram features

Balint Turi, Archontis Politis, Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam +1

Estimating a speaker's head orientation from audio can provide valuable information in smart environments, meetings, and driver monitoring. We propose a novel approach that leverag…

eess.AS2026

CNN Models for Microphone Array Covariance Matrix Upsampling and Acoustic Imaging

Marianthi Adamopoulou, Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam, David Diaz-Guerra +5

Acoustic imaging visualization is a core methodology in acoustics, enabling spatial analysis of sound sources and acoustic scenes. However, limited sensor availability in practical…

cs.SD2025

FOA Tokenizer: Low-bitrate Neural Codec for First Order Ambisonics with Spatial Consistency Loss

Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam, Sebastian Braun, Hannes Gamper

Neural audio codecs have been widely studied for mono and stereo signals, but spatial audio remains largely unexplored. We present the first discrete neural spatial audio codec for…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

Stereo Sound Event Localization and Detection with Onscreen/offscreen Classification

Kazuki Shimada, Archontis Politis, Iran R. Roman +10

This paper presents the objective, dataset, baseline, and metrics of Task 3 of the DCASE2025 Challenge on sound event localization and detection (SELD). In previous editions, the c…

cs.SD2025

Towards Spatial Audio Understanding via Question Answering

Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam, Archontis Politis

In this paper, we introduce a novel framework for spatial audio understanding of first-order ambisonic (FOA) signals through a question answering (QA) paradigm, aiming to extend th…

cs.SD2025

Representation Learning for Semantic Alignment of Language, Audio, and Visual Modalities

Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam, Irene Martín-Morató, Tuomas Virtanen

This paper proposes a single-stage training approach that semantically aligns three modalities - audio, visual, and text using a contrastive learning framework. Contrastive trainin…

cs.SD2023★ 7 cited

STARSS23: An Audio-Visual Dataset of Spatial Recordings of Real Scenes with Spatiotemporal Annotations of Sound Events

Kazuki Shimada, Archontis Politis, Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam +9

While direction of arrival (DOA) of sound events is generally estimated from multichannel audio data recorded in a microphone array, sound events usually derive from visually perce…

cs.CL2023

Attention-Based Methods For Audio Question Answering

Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam, Tuomas Virtanen

Audio question answering (AQA) is the task of producing natural language answers when a system is provided with audio and natural language questions. In this paper, we propose neur…

eess.AS2022★ 18 cited

STARSS22: A dataset of spatial recordings of real scenes with spatiotemporal annotations of sound events

Archontis Politis, Kazuki Shimada, Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam +7

This report presents the Sony-TAu Realistic Spatial Soundscapes 2022 (STARS22) dataset for sound event localization and detection, comprised of spatial recordings of real scenes co…

cs.SD2022

Clotho-AQA: A Crowdsourced Dataset for Audio Question Answering

Samuel Lipping, Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam, Konstantinos Drossos +1

Audio question answering (AQA) is a multimodal translation task where a system analyzes an audio signal and a natural language question, to generate a desirable natural language an…

cs.SD2021★ 5 cited

Assessment of Self-Attention on Learned Features For Sound Event Localization and Detection

Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam, Archontis Politis, Konstantinos Drossos

Joint sound event localization and detection (SELD) is an emerging audio signal processing task adding spatial dimensions to acoustic scene analysis and sound event detection. A po…