arXiv · 2610.40480
AVPS-360: A Spatial Audio-Visual Benchmark for Instance Segmentation and Tracking of Sound-Producing Persons
Abstract
Audio-visual instance segmentation (AVIS) segments and tracks individual sound-producing objects in videos. Existing benchmarks predominantly use monaural audio, which lacks inter-channel cues for spatially distinguishing concurrent sound sources. We introduce AVPS-360 (Audio-Visual Person Segmentation 360), a spatial audio-visual benchmark bridging AVIS and sound event localisation and detection (SELD). Built upon STARSS23, it pairs first-order Ambisonics audio with synchronised 360° video across 230 recordings totalling 10.5 hours. Recordings average 164.0 seconds. The dataset captures intermittent sound production in real-world interactions dominated by speech, alongside laughter, clapping, and footsteps. It provides 31,678 manually reviewed instance masks linked to source identities and sound-event labels. We also present a baseline that integrates spatial audio with visual features for frame-level segmentation and identity association across frames. Experiments on AVPS-360 show that existing AVIS methods struggle with detection and identity association in long recordings with intermittent sound production, while our baseline substantially improves performance in both aspects.
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Yifu Sun, Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam, Tuomas Virtanen, Archontis Politis. 2026-10-29. AVPS-360: A Spatial Audio-Visual Benchmark for Instance Segmentation and Tracking of Sound-Producing Persons. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40480
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