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We experimentally demonstrate a universal, parameter-independent test for asymmetric source discrimination. The test allows us to discriminate faint sources well beyond the diffraction limit by exploiting spatial mode demultiplexing (SPADE)…

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We present the signal processing framework and some results for the IEEE AASP challenge on acoustic source localization and tracking (LOCATA). The system is designed for the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in single-source scenarios.…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Daniele Salvati , Carlo Drioli , Gian Luca Foresti

Mobile robots in real-life settings would benefit from being able to localize sound sources. Such a capability can nicely complement vision to help localize a person or an interesting event in the environment, and also to provide enhanced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Jean-Marc Valin , François Michaud , Brahim Hadjou , Jean Rouat

For safe and efficient operation, mobile robots need to perceive their environment, and in particular, perform tasks such as obstacle detection, localization, and mapping. Although robots are often equipped with microphones and speakers,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Frederike Dümbgen , Adrien Hoffet , Mihailo Kolundžija , Adam Scholefield , Martin Vetterli

Electroelastic waves in piezoelectric media are widely used in sensing and filtering applications. Despite extensive research, computing the guided wave dispersion remains challenging. This paper presents semi-analytical approaches based on…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Daniel A. Kiefer , Georg Watzl , Katharina Burgholzer , Martin Ryzy , Clemens Grünsteidl

This paper presents a solution for multi source localization using only angle of arrival measurements. The receiver platform is in motion, while the sources are assumed to be stationary. Although numerous methods exist for single source…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Mustafa Atahan Nuhoglu , Hakan Ali Cirpan

The layout of acoustic emission sensors plays a critical role in non-destructive structural testing. This study proposes a grid-based optimization method focused on multi-source location results, in contrast to traditional sensor layout…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Yiling Chen , Xueyi Shang , Yi Ren , Linghao Liu , Xiaoying Li , Yu Zhang , Xiao Wu , Zhuqing Li , Yang Tai

In this paper, the multiple-source ellipsoidal localization problem based on acoustic energy measurements is investigated via set-membership estimation theory. When the probability density function of measurement noise is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Fanqin Meng , Xiaojing Shen , Zhiguo Wang , Haiqi Liu , Junfeng Wang , Yunmin Zhu , Pramod K. Varshney

Estimation of the location of sound sources is usually done using microphone arrays. Such settings provide an environment where we know the difference between the received signals among different microphones in the terms of phase or…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Helena Peic Tukuljac , Herve Lissek , Pierre Vandergheynst

Location information can be a valuable signal for audio segmentation tasks, especially as a complement to methods focusing on the content or qualities of the sources. Though audio source localization is typically performed using the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Matthew Maciejewski

This work is concerned with the inverse source problem of locating multiple multipolar sources from boundary measurements for the Helmholtz equation. We develop simple and effective sampling schemes for location acquisition of the sources…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-18 Deyue Zhang , Yukun Guo , Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu

Source localization is the process of estimating the location of signal sources based on the signals received at different antennas of an antenna array. It has diverse applications, ranging from radar systems and underwater acoustics to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Parisa Ramezani , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

In this paper we present an approach to geometry calibration in wireless acoustic sensor networks, whose nodes are assumed to be equipped with a compact microphone array. The proposed approach solely works with estimates of the distances…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Tobias Gburrek , Joerg Schmalenstroeer , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

The angular spectrum approach (ASA)---a fast, frequency domain method for calculation of the acoustic field---enables passive source localization and modeling forward propagation in homogeneous media with high computational efficiency. Here…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Scott Schoen , Costas D. Arvanitis

The objective of this paper is to perform audio-visual sound source separation, i.e.~to separate component audios from a mixture based on the videos of sound sources. Moreover, we aim to pinpoint the source location in the input video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Lingyu Zhu , Esa Rahtu

This paper compares machine learning approaches with different input data formats for the classification of acoustic emission (AE) signals. AE signals are a promising monitoring technique in many structural health monitoring applications.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Uditha Muthumala , Yuxuan Zhang , Luciano Sebastian Martinez-Rau , Sebastian Bader

This paper presents a Bayesian estimation method for the passive localization of an acoustic source in shallow water. Our probabilistic focalization approach estimates the time-varying source location by associating direction of arrival…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Florian Meyer , Kay L. Gemba

In electromagnetic source localization problems stemming from linearized Poisson-type equation, the aim is to locate the sources within a domain that produce given measurements on the boundary. In this type of problem, biasing of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Joonas Lahtinen

This paper presents a two-step approach for narrowband source localization within reverberant rooms. The first step involves dereverberation by modeling the homogeneous component of the sound field by an equivalent decomposition of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Wei-Ting Lai , Lachlan Birnie , Thushara Abhayapala , Amy Bastine , Shaoheng Xu , Prasanga Samarasinghe

This work describes and assesses different methods for estimating the time-of-arrival (TOA) of impact-induced waves in isotropic plate-like structures. The methods considered include threshold crossing (TC), continuous wavelet transform…

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