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Acoustic metamaterials provide new opportunities for compact and efficient wavefront manipulation, extending beyond conventional bulky and power-intensive phased-arrays. In this work, we exploit the spatial encoding properties of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Thomas Macleod , Sebastian Oberst , David A. Powell , Yan Kei Chiang

In this paper, we propose a method to estimate the proximity of an acoustic reflector, e.g., a wall, using ego-noise, i.e., the noise produced by the moving parts of a listening robot. This is achieved by estimating the times of arrival of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Usama Saqib , Antoine Deleforge , Jesper Jensen

In this thesis, we propose an artificial auditory system that gives a robot the ability to locate and track sounds, as well as to separate simultaneous sound sources and recognising simultaneous speech. We demonstrate that it is possible to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Jean-Marc Valin

We present a detection problem where several spatially distributed sensors observe Poisson signals emitted from a single source of unknown position. The measurements at each sensor are modeled by independent inhomogeneous Poisson processes.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Christian Farinetto , Yury A. Kutoyants , Alioune Top

Angle of arrival (AOA) is widely used to locate a wireless signal emitter in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization. Compared with received signal strength (RSS) and time of arrival (TOA), it has higher accuracy and is not sensitive to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Baihua Shi , Yifan Li , Guilu Wu , Shihao Yan , Feng Shu

The Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) has become a preferred technique to decompose nonlinear and non-stationary signals due to its ability to create time-varying basis functions. However, current EEMD signal cleaning techniques…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-29 Kentaro Hoffman , Jonathan M. Lees , Kai Zhang

In this paper, we consider inverse time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic scattering from locally perturbed rough surfaces in three dimensions. The scattering interface is supposed to be the graph of a Lipschitz continuous function with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Yu Zhao , Guanghui Hu , Baoqiang Yan

We develop a framework for localized source detection in dynamical systems governed by nonlinear partial differential equations based on first and second-order sensitivity analysis. Building on the standard adjoint formulation, which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-18 Qi Wang , Zejian You

Sensor noise sources cause differences in the signal recorded across pixels in a single image and across multiple images. This paper presents a Bayesian approach to decomposing and characterizing the sensor noise sources involved in imaging…

In practice, non-destructive testing (NDT) procedures tend to consider experiments (and their respective models) as distinct, conducted in isolation and associated with independent data. In contrast, this work looks to capture the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-11 Lawrence A. Bull , Matthew R. Jones , Elizabeth J. Cross , Andrew Duncan , Mark Girolami

Sound source tracking is commonly performed using classical array-processing algorithms, while machine-learning approaches typically rely on precise source position labels that are expensive or impractical to obtain. This paper introduces a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Luan Vinícius Fiorio , Ivana Nikoloska , Bruno Defraene , Alex Young , Johan David , Ronald M. Aarts

In this paper we use the MAP criterion to locate a region containing a source. Sensors placed in a field of interest divide the latter into smaller regions and take measurements that are transmitted over noisy wireless channels. We propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-03-19 S. H. Dandach , F. Bullo

In this paper, we present an acoustic localization system for multiple devices. In contrast to systems which localise a device relative to one or several anchor points, we focus on the joint localisation of several devices relative to each…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Yvonne-Anne Pignolet , Dacfey Dzung

Accurately determining the origin of radio emissions is essential for numerous scientific experiments, particularly in radio astronomy. Conventional techniques, such as the use of antenna arrays encounter significant challenges, specially…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Harsha Aviansh Tanti , Abhirup Datta , Tiasha Biswas , Anshuman Tripathi

Sound Source Localization (SSL) are used to estimate the position of sound sources. Various methods have been used for detecting sound and its localization. This paper presents a system for stationary sound source localization by cubical…

It is considered the problem of localization on the plane of two radioactive sources by K detectors. Each detector records a realization of inhomogeneous Poisson process and the intensity function of this process is a sum of a signal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-17 O Chernoyarov , S Dachian , C Farinetto , Yu Kutoyants

A popular method to estimate the positions or directions-of-arrival (DOAs) of multiple sound sources using an array of microphones is based on steered-response power (SRP) beamforming. For a three-dimensional scenario, SRP-based methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Klaus Brümann , Simon Doclo

In this study, we present an approach to ultrasonic beamforming and high resolution identification of acoustic sources having critical implications for structural health monitoring technology. The proposed concept is based on the design of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Fabio Semperlotti , Hongfei Zhu

Conventional approaches to sound localization and separation are based on microphone arrays in artificial systems. Inspired by the selective perception of human auditory system, we design a multi-source listening system which can separate…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Xuecong Sun , Han Jia , Zhe Zhang , Yuzhen Yang , Zhaoyong Sun , Jun Yang

Accurately estimating sound source positions is crucial for robot audition. However, existing sound source localization methods typically rely on a microphone array with at least two spatially preconfigured microphones. This requirement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jiang Wang , Runwu Shi , Benjamin Yen , He Kong , Kazuhiro Nakadai