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Conventional speaker localization algorithms, based merely on the received microphone signals, are often sensitive to adverse conditions, such as: high reverberation or low signal to noise ratio (SNR). In some scenarios, e.g. in meeting…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Bracha Laufer-Goldshtein , Ronen Talmon , Sharon Gannot

A popular approach for 3D source localization using multiple microphones is the steered-response power method, where the source position is directly estimated by maximizing a function of three continuous position variables. Instead of…

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

Purpose: Surgical scene understanding is key to advancing computer-aided and intelligent surgical systems. Current approaches predominantly rely on visual data or end-to-end learning, which limits fine-grained contextual modeling. This work…

We present a novel, robust sound source localization algorithm considering back-propagation signals. Sound propagation paths are estimated by generating direct and reflection acoustic rays based on ray tracing in a backward manner. We then…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Inkyu An , Doheon Lee , Byeongho Jo , Jung-Woo Choi , Sung-Eui Yoon

Sound source localization (SSL) technology plays a crucial role in various application areas such as fault diagnosis, speech separation, and vibration noise reduction. Although beamforming algorithms are widely used in SSL, their resolution…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Wenbo Ma , Yan Lu , Yijun Liu

Existing methods utilizing spatial information for sound source separation require prior knowledge of the direction of arrival (DOA) of the source or utilize estimated but imprecise localization results, which impairs the separation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Donghang Wu , Xihong Wu , Tianshu Qu

We present a novel approach to the 3D sound source localization task for distributed ad-hoc microphone arrays by formulating it as a set-to-set regression problem. By training a multi-modal masked autoencoder model that operates on audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Axel Berg , Jens Gulin , Mark O'Connor , Chuteng Zhou , Karl Åström , Magnus Oskarsson

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 article is a survey on deep learning methods for single and multiple sound source localization. We are particularly interested in sound source localization in indoor/domestic environment, where reverberation and diffuse noise are…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Pierre-Amaury Grumiaux , Srđan Kitić , Laurent Girin , Alexandre Guérin

Radio source localization can benefit many fields, including wireless communications, radar, radio astronomy, wireless sensor networks, positioning systems, and surveillance systems. However, accurately estimating the position of a radio…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Asanka Perera , Vu Phi Tran , Sreenatha Anavatti , Kathryn Kasmarik , Matthew Garratt

Signal source localization has been a problem of interest in the multi-robot systems domain given its applications in search & rescue and hazard localization in various industrial and outdoor settings. A variety of multi-robot search…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Aditya Bhatt , Mary Katherine Corra , Franklin Merlo , Prajit KrisshnaKumar , Souma Chowdhury

Conventional sound source localization methods are mostly based on a single microphone array that consists of multiple microphones. They are usually formulated as the estimation of the direction of arrival problem. In this paper, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Yijun Gong , Shupei Liu , Xiao-Lei Zhang

Steered Response Power (SRP) is a widely used method for the task of sound source localization using microphone arrays, showing satisfactory localization performance on many practical scenarios. However, its performance is diminished under…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Eric Grinstein , Toon van Waterschoot , Mike Brookes , Patrick A. Naylor

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

Underwater data infrastructures offer natural cooling and enhanced physical security compared to terrestrial facilities, but their storage systems remain susceptible to acoustic injection attacks, where sound-induced mechanical vibrations…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Adnan Abdullah , David Blow , Sara Rampazzi , Md Jahidul Islam

This paper addresses the problem of sound-source localization from time-delay estimates using arbitrarily-shaped non-coplanar microphone arrays. A novel geometric formulation is proposed, together with a thorough algebraic analysis and a…

Sound · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Radu Horaud

Sound sources localization using multichannel signal processing has been a subject of active research for decades. In recent years, the use of deep learning in audio signal processing has allowed to drastically improve performances for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Hadrien Pujol , Éric Bavu , Alexandre Garcia

Recent data- and learning-based sound source localization (SSL) methods have shown strong performance in challenging acoustic scenarios. However, little work has been done on adapting such methods to track consistently multiple sources…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 David Diaz-Guerra , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

Visual sound source localization is a fundamental perception task that aims to detect the location of sounding sources in a video given its audio. Despite recent progress, we identify two shortcomings in current methods: 1) most approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Xavier Juanola , Giovana Morais , Magdalena Fuentes , Gloria Haro

This study presents a system for sound source localization in time domain using a deep residual neural network. Data from the linear 8 channel microphone array with 3 cm spacing is used by the network for direction estimation. We propose to…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Dmitry Suvorov , Ge Dong , Roman Zhukov