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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

We consider a linear ill-posed equation in the Hilbert space setting. Multiple independent unbiased measurements of the right hand side are available. A natural approach is to take the average of the measurements as an approximation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Tim Jahn

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

A microphone array can provide a mobile robot with the capability of localizing, tracking and separating distant sound sources in 2D, i.e., estimating their relative elevation and azimuth. To combine acoustic data with visual information in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-23 Simon Michaud , Samuel Faucher , François Grondin , Jean-Samuel Lauzon , Mathieu Labbé , Dominic Létourneau , François Ferland , François Michaud

Knowing the geometry of a space is desirable for many applications, e.g. sound source localization, sound field reproduction or auralization. In circumstances where only acoustic signals can be obtained, estimating the geometry of a room is…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Linh Nguyen , Jaime Valls Miro , Xiaojun Qiu

The problem of imaging extended targets (sources or scatterers) is formulated in the framework of compressed sensing with emphasis on subwavelength resolution. The proposed formulation of the problems of inverse source/scattering is…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-15 Albert C. Fannjiang

Estimating the sound absorption in situ relies on accurately describing the measured sound field. Evidence suggests that modeling the reflection of impinging spherical waves is important, especially for compact measurement systems. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Eric Brandao , William Fonseca , Paulo Mareze , Carlos Resende , Gabriel Azzuz , Joao Pontalti , Efren Fernandez-Grande

We consider an inverse problem for the linear one-dimensional wave equation with variable coefficients consisting in determining an unknown source term from a boundary observation. A method to obtain approximations of this inverse problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Carlos Castro , Sorin Micu

Parameter estimation is of fundamental importance in areas from atomic spectroscopy and atomic clocks to gravitational wave detection. Entangled probes provide a significant precision gain over classical strategies in the absence of noise.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-28 R. Chaves , J. B. Brask , M. Markiewicz , J. Kolodynski , A. Acin

This paper develops a mathematical theory of super-resolution. Broadly speaking, super-resolution is the problem of recovering the fine details of an object---the high end of its spectrum---from coarse scale information only---from samples…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-15 Emmanuel Candes , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

A high-precision numerical sound field is the basis of underwater target detection, positioning and communication. A line source in a plane is a common type of sound source in computational ocean acoustics. The exciting waveguide in a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Houwang Tu , Yongxian Wang , Chunmei Yang , Xiaodong Wang , Shuqing Ma , Wenbin Xiao , Wei Liu

In a spherically complete ultrametric space, a strictly contracting mapping has a fixed point. We indicate in this paper how this fixed point can either be reached or approximated.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-25 Sibylla Priess-Crampe , Paulo Ribenboim

The goal of ordinal embedding is to represent items as points in a low-dimensional Euclidean space given a set of constraints in the form of distance comparisons like "item $i$ is closer to item $j$ than item $k$". Ordinal constraints like…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-24 Lalit Jain , Kevin Jamieson , Robert Nowak

Visual events are usually accompanied by sounds in our daily lives. However, can the machines learn to correlate the visual scene and sound, as well as localize the sound source only by observing them like humans? To investigate its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Arda Senocak , Tae-Hyun Oh , Junsik Kim , Ming-Hsuan Yang , In So Kweon

The objective of this work is to quantify the reconstruction error in sparse inverse problems with measures and stochastic noise, motivated by optimal sensor placement. To be useful in this context, the error quantities must be explicit in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Phuoc-Truong Huynh , Konstantin Pieper , Daniel Walter

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 present a new robust sound source localization and tracking method using an array of eight microphones (US patent pending) . The method uses a steered beamformer based on the reliability-weighted phase transform (RWPHAT)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Jean-Marc Valin , François Michaud , Jean Rouat

A general approach to the problem of positioning by means of pulsars or other pulsating sources located at infinity is described. The counting of the pulses for a set of different sources whose positions in the sky and periods are assumed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Tartaglia

This paper studies sensor calibration in spectral estimation where the true frequencies are located on a continuous domain. We consider a uniform array of sensors that collects measurements whose spectrum is composed of a finite number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Yonina C. Eldar , Wenjing Liao , Sui Tang

We study the inverse problem of locating point sources from far-field data under plane wave incidence. A direct computational method is developed based on multiple scattering theory, using a novel indicator function to avoid iterative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Nana Meng