Learning Spatial Features from Audio-Visual Correspondence in Egocentric Videos

We propose a self-supervised method for learning representations based on spatial audio-visual correspondences in egocentric videos. In particular, our method leverages a masked auto-encoding framework to synthesize masked binaural audio through the synergy of audio and vision, thereby learning useful spatial relationships between the two modalities. We use our pretrained features to tackle two downstream video tasks requiring spatial understanding in social scenarios: active speaker detection and spatial audio denoising. We show through extensive experiments that our features are generic enough to improve over multiple state-of-the-art baselines on two public challenging egocentric video datasets, EgoCom and EasyCom. Project: http://vision.cs.utexas.edu/projects/ego_av_corr.