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This short paper presents an efficient, flexible implementation of the SRP-PHAT multichannel sound source localization method. The method is evaluated on the single-source tasks of the LOCATA 2018 development dataset, and an associated…

Algorithms for acoustic source localization and tracking provide estimates of the positional information about active sound sources in acoustic environments and are essential for a wide range of applications such as personal assistants,…

The ability to localize and track acoustic events is a fundamental prerequisite for equipping machines with the ability to be aware of and engage with humans in their surrounding environment. However, in realistic scenarios, audio signals…

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) systems using audio recordings from a microphone array rely on spatial cues for determining the location of sound events. As a consequence, the localization performance of such systems is to a…

This paper introduces a modification of phase transform on singular value decomposition (SVD-PHAT) to localize multiple sound sources. This work aims to improve localization accuracy and keeps the algorithm complexity low for real-time…

This document describes our submission to the 2018 LOCalization And TrAcking (LOCATA) challenge (Tasks 1, 3, 5). We estimate the 3D position of a speaker using the Global Coherence Field (GCF) computed from multiple microphone pairs of a…

Human-robot interaction in natural settings requires filtering out the different sources of sounds from the environment. Such ability usually involves the use of microphone arrays to localize, track and separate sound sources online.…

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.…

Many speaker localization methods can be found in the literature. However, speaker localization under strong reverberation still remains a major challenge in the real-world applications. This paper proposes two algorithms for localizing…

In this article we analyze the state-of-the-art in multilateration - the family of localization methods enabled by the range difference observations. These methods are computationally efficient, signal-independent, and flexible with regards…

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)…

This paper presents an online multiple-speaker localization and tracking method, as the INRIA-Perception contribution to the LOCATA Challenge 2018. First, the recursive least-square method is used to adaptively estimate the direct-path…

This paper introduces a new localization method called SVD-PHAT. The SVD-PHAT method relies on Singular Value Decomposition of the SRP-PHAT projection matrix. A k-d tree is also proposed to speed up the search for the most likely direction…

This paper introduces a variant of the Singular Value Decomposition with Phase Transform (SVD-PHAT), named Difference SVD-PHAT (DSVD-PHAT), to achieve robust Sound Source Localization (SSL) in noisy conditions. Experiments are performed on…

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…

Sound source localization (SSL) demonstrates remarkable results in controlled settings but struggles in real-world deployment due to dual imbalance challenges: intra-task imbalance arising from long-tailed direction-of-arrival (DoA)…

In this paper, we present a new single sound source DOA estimation and tracking system based on the well-known SRP-PHAT algorithm and a three-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network. It uses SRP-PHAT power maps as input features of a fully…

This paper investigates the accuracy of various Generalized Cross-Correlation with Phase Transform (GCC-PHAT) methods for a close pair of microphones. We investigate interpolation-based methods and also propose another approach based on…

Sound event localization aims at estimating the positions of sound sources in the environment with respect to an acoustic receiver (e.g. a microphone array). Recent advances in this domain most prominently focused on utilizing deep…

This paper introduces SMP-PHAT, which performs direction of arrival (DoA) of sound estimation with a microphone array by merging pairs of microphones that are parallel in space. This approach reduces the number of pairwise cross-correlation…