Paper Summary
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Teaching Computers to Understand 'A Dog Barking on the Left'
This paper introduces Spatial-CLAP, a model that learns to link audio and text descriptions, including spatial information like "dog barking on the left." It's tested on simulated stereo audio and captions, showing it can effectively connect sounds with their locations in multi-source scenarios, unlike previous models that struggled with multiple sounds.
Possible Conflicts of Interest
None identified
Identified Weaknesses
Reliance on simulated data
The study relies on simulated stereo audio, which may not fully capture the complexities of real-world acoustic environments. This limits the generalizability of the findings to real-world applications.
Limited evaluation on real-world data
While the model is evaluated on a downstream task, further evaluation on real-world datasets is needed to fully assess its performance in more complex scenarios.
Lack of comparison with other multi-modal models
The paper primarily focuses on comparisons with variations of its own architecture. Comparing performance with other multi-modal or spatial audio models would provide a more comprehensive evaluation.
Rating Explanation
This paper presents a novel approach to learning spatially-aware audio-text embeddings. The proposed model and training strategy effectively address the challenges of multi-source conditions, showing promising results. However, the reliance on simulated data and limited evaluation on real-world scenarios slightly lower the rating.
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Original Title:
SPATIAL-CLAP: LEARNING SPATIALLY-AWARE AUDIO–TEXT EMBEDDINGS FOR MULTI-SOURCE CONDITIONS
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September 19, 2025 at 05:23 AM
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