Less is More: Encoder-only Audio-Visual Segmentation

arXiv:2609.29121 · cs.CV, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Terminology

• Audio-Visual Segmentation — 19× in this paper
• Transformer — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation — 3× in this paper
• Feature Extraction — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Convolutional Neural Network — 1× in this paper
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Instance Segmentation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Model-Agnostic — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Modular Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Segmentation Masks — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Vision Foundation Models — 1× in this paper
• Vision Transformer (ViT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• AVESFormer: Efficient Transformer Design for Real-Time Audio-Visual Segmentation
• Discovering Sounding Objects by Audio Queries for Audio Visual Segmentation

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