Cross-modal Generative Model for Visual-Guided Binaural Stereo Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07630v1
• Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 09:53:14 GMT
• Title: Cross-modal Generative Model for Visual-Guided Binaural Stereo Generation
• Authors: Zhaojian Li, Bin Zhao and Yuan Yuan
• Abstract summary: We propose a visually guided generative adversarial approach for generating stereo audio from mono audio. A metric to measure the spatial perception of audio is proposed for the first time. The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance on 2 datasets and 5 evaluation metrics.
• Score: 18.607236792587614
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Binaural stereo audio is recorded by imitating the way the human ear receives sound, which provides people with an immersive listening experience. Existing approaches leverage autoencoders and directly exploit visual spatial information to synthesize binaural stereo, resulting in a limited representation of visual guidance. For the first time, we propose a visually guided generative adversarial approach for generating binaural stereo audio from mono audio. Specifically, we develop a Stereo Audio Generation Model (SAGM), which utilizes shared spatio-temporal visual information to guide the generator and the discriminator to work separately. The shared visual information is updated alternately in the generative adversarial stage, allowing the generator and discriminator to deliver their respective guided knowledge while visually sharing. The proposed method learns bidirectional complementary visual information, which facilitates the expression of visual guidance in generation. In addition, spatial perception is a crucial attribute of binaural stereo audio, and thus the evaluation of stereo spatial perception is essential. However, previous metrics failed to measure the spatial perception of audio. To this end, a metric to measure the spatial perception of audio is proposed for the first time. The proposed metric is capable of measuring the magnitude and direction of spatial perception in the temporal dimension. Further, considering its function, it is feasible to utilize it instead of demanding user studies to some extent. The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance on 2 datasets and 5 evaluation metrics. Qualitative experiments and user studies demonstrate that the method generates space-realistic stereo audio.

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