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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…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Christine Evers , Heinrich Loellmann , Heinrich Mellmann , Alexander Schmidt , Hendrik Barfuss , Patrick Naylor , Walter Kellermann

This article presents a Non-negative Tensor Factorization based method for sound source separation from Ambisonic microphone signals. The proposed method enables the use of prior knowledge about the Directions-of-Arrival (DOAs) of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Mateusz Guzik , Konrad Kowalczyk

Acoustic source localization has been applied in different fields, such as aeronautics and ocean science, generally using multiple microphones array data to reconstruct the source location. However, the model-based beamforming methods fail…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Guanxing Zhou , Hao Liang , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang , Xiaotong Tu , Saqlain Abbas

Automatic modulation classification (AMC) is an important task for modern communication systems; however, it is a challenging problem when signal features and precise models for generating each modulation may be unknown. We present a new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-18 Benjamin Migliori , Riley Zeller-Townson , Daniel Grady , Daniel Gebhardt

A novel end-to-end binaural sound localisation approach is proposed which estimates the azimuth of a sound source directly from the waveform. Instead of employing hand-crafted features commonly employed for binaural sound localisation, such…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Paolo Vecchiotti , Ning Ma , Stefano Squartini , Guy J. Brown

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

More and more neural network approaches have achieved considerable improvement upon submodules of speaker diarization system, including speaker change detection and segment-wise speaker embedding extraction. Still, in the clustering stage,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Qingjian Lin , Ruiqing Yin , Ming Li , Hervé Bredin , Claude Barras

We propose to use neural networks for simultaneous detection and localization of multiple sound sources in human-robot interaction. In contrast to conventional signal processing techniques, neural network-based sound source localization…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Weipeng He , Petr Motlicek , Jean-Marc Odobez

Estimation of the location of sound sources is usually done using microphone arrays. Such settings provide an environment where we know the difference between the received signals among different microphones in the terms of phase or…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Helena Peic Tukuljac , Herve Lissek , Pierre Vandergheynst

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is widely applied in acoustic source localization. A multi-frequency model is suitable for characterizing the broadband structure in acoustic signals. In this paper, the continuous (gridless) DOA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Yifan Wu , Michael B. Wakin , Peter Gerstoft

Spatial aliasing affects spaced microphone arrays, causing directional ambiguity above certain frequencies, degrading spatial and spectral accuracy of beamformers. Given the limitations of conventional signal processing and the scarcity of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Mateusz Guzik , Giulio Cengarle , Daniel Arteaga

Sound source localization (SSL) is the task of locating the source of sound within an image. Due to the lack of localization labels, the de facto standard in SSL has been to represent an image and audio as a single embedding vector each,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Inho Kim , Youngkil Song , Jicheol Park , Won Hwa Kim , Suha Kwak

Sound source localisation is used in many consumer devices, to isolate audio from individual speakers and reject noise. Localization is frequently accomplished by ``beamforming'', which combines phase-shifted audio streams to increase power…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Saeid Haghighatshoar , Dylan R Muir

This paper describes a sound source localization (SSL) technique that combines an $\alpha$-stable model for the observed signal with a neural network-based approach for modeling steering vectors. Specifically, a physics-informed neural…

The deconvolutional DAMAS algorithm can effectively eliminate the misconceptions in the usually-used beamforming localization algorithm, allowing for more accurate calculation of the source location as well as the intensity. When solving a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Weicheng Xue , Bing Yang , Shaohong Jia

We study the problem of localizing audio-visual events that are both audible and visible in a video. Existing works focus on encoding and aligning audio and visual features at the segment level while neglecting informative correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Hao Wang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Liang Li , Xuejin Chen , Jiebo Luo

Humans can robustly recognize and localize objects by integrating visual and auditory cues. While machines are able to do the same now with images, less work has been done with sounds. This work develops an approach for dense semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

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

This paper introduces a new approach to sound source localization using head-related transfer function (HRTF) characteristics, which enable precise full-sphere localization from raw data. While previous research focused primarily on using…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Gil Geva , Olivier Warusfel , Shlomo Dubnov , Tammuz Dubnov , Amir Amedi , Yacov Hel-Or

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) in multichannel, multi-speaker scenarios remains challenging due to ambient noise, reverberation and overlapping speakers. In this paper, we propose a beamforming approach that processes specific angular…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Can Cui , Paul Magron , Mostafa Sadeghi , Emmanuel Vincent