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The DIarization of SPeaker and LAnguage in Conversational Environments (DISPLACE) 2024 challenge is the second in the series of DISPLACE challenges, which involves tasks of speaker diarization (SD) and language diarization (LD) on a…

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…

We address the problem of online localization and tracking of multiple moving speakers in reverberant environments. The paper has the following contributions. We use the direct-path relative transfer function (DP-RTF), an inter-channel…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Xiaofei Li , Yutong Ban , Laurent Girin , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Radu Horaud

Indoor localization is a long-standing challenge in mobile computing, with significant implications for enabling location-aware and intelligent applications within smart environments such as homes, offices, and retail spaces. As AI…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Amod K. Agrawal

The prevailing noise-resistant and reverberation-resistant localization algorithms primarily emphasize separating and providing directional output for each speaker in multi-speaker scenarios, without association with the identity of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yu Chen , Xinyuan Qian , Zexu Pan , Kainan Chen , Haizhou Li

This paper addresses the problem of multiple-speaker localization in noisy and reverberant environments, using binaural recordings of an acoustic scene. A Gaussian mixture model (GMM) is adopted, whose components correspond to all the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Xiaofei Li , Laurent Girin , Sharon Gannot , Radu Horaud

This paper deals with the problem of reconstructing the path of a vehicle in an unknown environment consisting of planar structures using sound. Many systems in the literature do this by using a loudspeaker and microphones mounted on a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Mireille Boutin , Gregor Kemper

This study investigates robust speaker localization for con-tinuous speech separation and speaker diarization, where we use speaker directions to group non-contiguous segments of the same speaker. Assuming that speakers do not move and are…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Zhong-Qiu Wang , DeLiang Wang

Recent studies have demonstrated that prompting large language models (LLM) with audio encodings enables effective speech recognition capabilities. However, the ability of Speech LLMs to comprehend and process multi-channel audio with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Jiamin Xie , Ju Lin , Yiteng Huang , Tyler Vuong , Zhaojiang Lin , Zhaojun Yang , Peng Su , Prashant Rawat , Sangeeta Srivastava , Ming Sun , Florian Metze

Multi-channel multi-talker speech recognition presents formidable challenges in the realm of speech processing, marked by issues such as background noise, reverberation, and overlapping speech. Overcoming these complexities requires…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Yiwen Shao

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

Speakers may move around while diarisation is being performed. When a microphone array is used, the instantaneous locations of where the sounds originated from can be estimated, and previous investigations have shown that such information…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Jeremy H. M. Wong , Yifan Gong

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

Sound event localization and detection consists of two subtasks which are sound event detection and direction-of-arrival estimation. While sound event detection mainly relies on time-frequency patterns to distinguish different sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Karn Watcharasupat , Ngoc Khanh Nguyen , Douglas L. Jones , Woon Seng Gan

Speaker diarization is a task to label an audio or video recording with the identity of the speaker at each given time stamp. In this work, we propose a novel machine learning framework to conduct real-time multi-speaker diarization and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Baihan Lin , Xinxin Zhang

Sound source localization (SSL) is a critical technology for determining the position of sound sources in complex environments. However, existing methods face challenges such as high computational costs and precise calibration requirements,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yiyuan Yang , Shitong Xu , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Speech separation with several speakers is a challenging task because of the non-stationarity of the speech and the strong signal similarity between interferent sources. Current state-of-the-art solutions can separate well the different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Nicolas Furnon , Romain Serizel , Irina Illina , Slim Essid

Given a multi-microphone recording of an unknown number of speakers talking concurrently, we simultaneously localize the sources and separate the individual speakers. At the core of our method is a deep network, in the waveform domain,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Teerapat Jenrungrot , Vivek Jayaram , Steve Seitz , Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman

Deep neural networks have recently led to promising results for the task of multiple sound source localization. Yet, they require a lot of training data to cover a variety of acoustic conditions and microphone array layouts. One can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-18 Guillaume Le Moing , Phongtharin Vinayavekhin , Don Joven Agravante , Tadanobu Inoue , Jayakorn Vongkulbhisal , Asim Munawar , Ryuki Tachibana

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…