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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

This letter introduces a deep learning (DL) framework for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. Previous works in DL context mostly consider a single or two target scenario which is a strong limitation in practice. Hence, in this work, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Ahmet M. Elbir

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have greatly benefited direction of arrival (DoA) estimation methods for speech source localization in noisy environments. However, their localization accuracy is still far from satisfactory due to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Kuan-Lin Chen , Ching-Hua Lee , Bhaskar D. Rao , Harinath Garudadri

Conventional direction of arrival (DOA) estimators are based on array processing using either time differences or beamforming. The proposed approach is based on the received power at each microphone, which enables simple hardware, low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Gustav Zetterqvist , Fredrik Gustafsson , Gustaf Hendeby

This paper investigates the joint localization, detection, and tracking of sound events using a convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN). We use a CRNN previously proposed for the localization and detection of stationary sources, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Sharath Adavanne , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

In this paper, we introduce a novel algorithm that can dramatically reduce the number of antenna elements needed to accurately predict the direction of arrival (DOA) for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar. The new proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Udaya Sampath K. P. Miriya Thanthrige , Aya Mostafa Ahmed , Aydin Sezgin

The task of estimating the maximum number of concurrent speakers from single channel mixtures is important for various audio-based applications, such as blind source separation, speaker diarisation, audio surveillance or auditory scene…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Fabian-Robert Stöter , Soumitro Chakrabarty , Bernd Edler , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Recent neural network based Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation algorithms have performed well on unknown number of sound sources scenarios. These algorithms are usually achieved by mapping the multi-channel audio input to the single…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-18 Haoran Yin , Meng Ge , Yanjie Fu , Gaoyan Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Lei Zhang , Lin Qiu , Jianwu Dang

Detecting sound source objects within visual observation is important for autonomous robots to comprehend surrounding environments. Since sounding objects have a large variety with different appearances in our living environments, labeling…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Yoshiki Masuyama , Yoshiaki Bando , Kohei Yatabe , Yoko Sasaki , Masaki Onishi , Yasuhiro Oikawa

This study investigates robust speaker localization for con-tinuous speech separation and speaker diarization, where we use speaker directions to group non-contiguous segments of the same speaker. Assuming that speakers do not move and are…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Zhong-Qiu Wang , DeLiang Wang

Massive multiple input multiple output(MIMO)-based fully-digital receive antenna arrays bring huge amount of complexity to both traditional direction of arrival(DOA) estimation algorithms and neural network training, which is difficult to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Yiwen Chen , Xichao Zhan , Feng Shu

In this paper, we propose a convolutional recurrent neural network for joint sound event localization and detection (SELD) of multiple overlapping sound events in three-dimensional (3D) space. The proposed network takes a sequence of…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Sharath Adavanne , Archontis Politis , Joonas Nikunen , Tuomas Virtanen

The paper investigates the direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation of narrow band signals with conventional co-prime arrays by using probabilistic Bayesian neural networks (PBNN). A super resolution DOA estimation method based on Bayesian…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Wael Elshennawy

Recently, a relative transfer function (RTF)-vector-based method has been proposed to estimate the direction of arrival (DOA) of a target speaker for a binaural hearing aid setup, assuming the availability of external microphones. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Daniel Fejgin , Simon Doclo

Sound event detection (SED) and localization refer to recognizing sound events and estimating their spatial and temporal locations. Using neural networks has become the prevailing method for SED. In the area of sound localization, which is…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Yin Cao , Qiuqiang Kong , Turab Iqbal , Fengyan An , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

We address the problem of estimating direction-of-arrivals (DOAs) for multiple acoustic sources in a reverberant environment using a spherical microphone array. It is well-known that multi-source DOA estimation is challenging in the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Rohith Mars , Hiroyuki Ehara , Srikanth Nagisetty , Chong Soon Lim

To estimate the direction of arrival (DOA) of multiple speakers, subspace-based prototype transfer function matching methods such as multiple signal classification (MUSIC) or relative transfer function (RTF) vector matching are commonly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Daniel Fejgin , Simon Doclo

We propose a deep beamforming framework for enhancing target speaker(s) in multi-speaker environments. A deep neural network (DNN) is trained to estimate beamforming weights directly from noisy multichannel inputs while satisfying linear…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Ilai Zaidel , Ori Engel , Bar Engel , Sharon Gannot

In this paper we consider a binaural hearing aid setup, where in addition to the head-mounted microphones an external microphone is available. For this setup, we investigate the performance of several relative transfer function (RTF) vector…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Daniel Fejgin , Simon Doclo

To phased microphone array for sound source localization, algorithm with both high computational efficiency and high precision is a persistent pursuit. In this paper convolutional neural network (CNN) a kind of deep learning is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-14 Wei Ma , Xun Liu