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The human brain receives stimuli in multiple ways; among them, audio constitutes an important source of relevant stimuli for the brain regarding communication, amusement, warning, etc. In this context, the aim of this manuscript is to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-21 Isaac Ariza , Ana M. Barbancho , Lorenzo J. Tardon , Isabel Barbancho

We introduce a U-net model for 360{\deg} acoustic source localization formulated as a spherical semantic segmentation task. Rather than regressing discrete direction-of-arrival (DoA) angles, our model segments beamformed audio maps (azimuth…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Belman Jahir Rodriguez , Sergio F. Chevtchenko , Marcelo Herrera Martinez , Yeshwanth Bethi , Saeed Afshar

Although mask-based beamforming is a powerful speech enhancement approach, it often requires manual parameter tuning to handle moving speakers. Recently, this approach was augmented with an attention-based spatial covariance matrix…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Marvin Tammen , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Shoko Araki , Simon Doclo

Sound-tracking refers to the process of determining the direction from which a sound originates, making it a fundamental component of sound source localization. This capability is essential in a variety of applications, including security…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Mahdi Ali Pour , Zahra Habibzadeh

A deep learning approach based on big data is proposed to locate broadband acoustic sources using a single hydrophone in ocean waveguides with uncertain bottom parameters. Several 50-layer residual neural networks, trained on a huge number…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-07-19 Haiqiang Niu , Zaixiao Gong , Emma Ozanich , Peter Gerstoft , Haibin Wang , Zhenglin Li

In this study, methodology of acoustic emission source localization in composite materials based on artificial intelligence was presented. Carbon fiber reinforced plastic was selected for specimen, and acoustic emission signal were measured…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jongick Won , Hyuntaik Oh , Jae Sakong

Underwater acoustic localization has traditionally been challenging due to the presence of unknown environmental structure and dynamic conditions. The problem is richer still when such structure includes occlusion, which causes the loss of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-06 Amir Weiss , Toros Arikan , Hari Vishnu , Grant B. Deane , Andrew C. Singer , Gregory W. Wornell

We propose a speaker selection mechanism (SSM) for the training of an end-to-end beamforming neural network, based on recent findings that a listener usually looks to the target speaker with a certain undershot angle. The mechanism allows…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Luan Vinícius Fiorio , Bruno Defraene , Johan David , Alex Young , Frans Widdershoven , Wim van Houtum , Ronald M. Aarts

Visual events are usually accompanied by sounds in our daily lives. We pose the question: Can the machine learn the correspondence between visual scene and the sound, and localize the sound source only by observing sound and visual scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Arda Senocak , Tae-Hyun Oh , Junsik Kim , Ming-Hsuan Yang , In So Kweon

Source localization techniques incorporating hybrid measurements improve the reliability and accuracy of the location estimate. Given a set of hybrid sensors that can collect combined time of arrival (TOA), received signal strength (RSS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Kuntal Panwar , Ghania Fatima , Prabhu Babu

Visual sound localization is a typical and challenging problem that predicts the location of objects corresponding to the sound source in a video. Previous methods mainly used the audio-visual association between global audio and one-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Shentong Mo , Haofan Wang

Binaural reproduction methods aim to recreate an acoustic scene for a listener over headphones, offering immersive experiences in applications such as Virtual Reality (VR) and teleconferencing. Among the existing approaches, the Binaural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Sapir Goldring , Zamir Ben Hur , David Lou Alon , Boaz Rafaely

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will operate as an AM/FM receiver for gravitational waves. For binary systems, the source location, orientation and orbital phase are encoded in the amplitude and frequency modulation. The same…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Neil J. Cornish , Shane L. Larson

This paper introduces a new framework for supervised sound source localization referred to as virtually-supervised learning. An acoustic shoe-box room simulator is used to generate a large number of binaural single-source audio scenes.…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Saurabh Kataria , Clément Gaultier , Antoine Deleforge

Community researchers have developed a range of advanced audio-visual segmentation models aimed at improving the quality of sounding objects' masks. While masks created by these models may initially appear plausible, they occasionally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Peiwen Sun , Honggang Zhang , Di Hu

We present a novel solution to the problem of localizing magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG) brain signals. The solution is sequential and iterative, and is based on minimizing the least-squares criterion by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Amir Adler , Mati Wax , Dimitrios Pantazis

This paper investigates the performance of Binaural Signal Matching (BSM) methods for near-field sound reproduction using a wearable glasses-mounted microphone array. BSM is a flexible, signal-independent approach for binaural rendering…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Sapir Goldring , Zamir Ben Hur , David Lou Alon , Chad McKell , Sebastian Prepelita , Boaz Rafaely

The audio source separation tasks, such as speech enhancement, speech separation, and music source separation, have achieved impressive performance in recent studies. The powerful modeling capabilities of deep neural networks give us hope…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-15 Lu Zhang , Chenxing Li , Feng Deng , Xiaorui Wang

The localization of sound sources by the human brain is computationally simulated from a neurobiological perspective. The simulation includes the neural representation of temporal differences in acoustic signals between the ipsilateral and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2008-10-31 Nikesh S. Dattani

Optical fibers have long been employed as sensors in a wide range of commercial systems. Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) extends this concept by enabling the detection and localization of acoustic sources along the fiber, using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Knut H. Grythe , Jan Erik Håkegård