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This paper proposes design techniques for partially-calibrated sparse linear subarrays and algorithms to perform direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. First, we introduce array architectures that incorporate two distinct array categories,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 W. Leite , R. C. de Lamare , Y. Zakharov , W. Liu , M. Haardt

A smart navigation system (an Electronic Travel Aid) based on an object detection mechanism has been designed to detect the presence of obstacles that immediately impede the path, by means of real time video processing. The algorithm can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Supreeth K. Rao , Arpitha Prasad B. , Anushree R. Shetty , Chinmai , R. Bhakthavathsalam , Rajeshwari Hegde

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…

Direction of arrival estimation (DoAE) aims at tracking a sound in azimuth and elevation. Recent advancements include data-driven models with inputs derived from ambisonics intensity vectors or correlations between channels in a microphone…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Adrian S. Roman , Iran R. Roman , Juan P. Bello

Spatial audio understanding aims to enable machines to interpret complex auditory scenes, particularly when sound sources move over time. In this work, we study Spatial Audio Question Answering (Spatial AQA) with a focus on movement…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Arvind Krishna Sridhar , Yinyi Guo , Erik Visser

A popular method to estimate the positions or directions-of-arrival (DOAs) of multiple sound sources using an array of microphones is based on steered-response power (SRP) beamforming. For a three-dimensional scenario, SRP-based methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Klaus Brümann , Simon Doclo

While direction of arrival (DOA) of sound events is generally estimated from multichannel audio data recorded in a microphone array, sound events usually derive from visually perceptible source objects, e.g., sounds of footsteps come from…

The directions of arrival (DOA) of plane waves are estimated from multi-snapshot sensor array data using Sparse Bayesian Learning (SBL). The prior source amplitudes is assumed independent zero-mean complex Gaussian distributed with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Peter Gerstoft , Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker , Angeliki Xenaki

An immersive acoustic experience enabled by spatial audio is just as crucial as the visual aspect in creating realistic virtual environments. However, existing methods for room impulse response estimation rely either on data-demanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Derong Jin , Ruohan Gao

Sound source localization aims to seek the direction of arrival (DOA) of all sound sources from the observed multi-channel audio. For the practical problem of unknown number of sources, existing localization algorithms attempt to predict a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Yanjie Fu , Meng Ge , Haoran Yin , Xinyuan Qian , Longbiao Wang , Gaoyan Zhang , Jianwu Dang

In this paper, we introduce a novel framework for spatial audio understanding of first-order ambisonic (FOA) signals through a question answering (QA) paradigm, aiming to extend the scope of sound event localization and detection (SELD)…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam , Archontis Politis

This work addresses the problem of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in the presence of non-Gaussian, heavy-tailed, and spatially-colored interference. Conventionally, the interference is considered to be Gaussian-distributed and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Stefan Feintuch , Joseph Tabrikian , Igal Bilik , Haim H. Permuter

As massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) becomes popular, direction of arrival (DOA) measurement has been made a real renaissance due to the high-resolution achieved. Thus, there is no doubt about DOA estimation using massive MIMO.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jiangzhou Wang , Baihua Shi , Feng Shu , Qi Zhang , Di Wu , Qijuan Jie , Zhihong Zhuang , Siling Feng , Yijin Zhang

Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation is a fundamental task in array processing. A popular family of DoA estimation algorithms are subspace methods, which operate by dividing the measurements into distinct signal and noise subspaces.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Dor H. Shmuel , Julian P. Merkofer , Guy Revach , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Nir Shlezinger

The direction of arrival (DOA) estimation algorithms are crucial in localizing acoustic sources. Traditional localization methods rely on block-level processing to extract the directional information from multiple measurements processed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Ruchi Pandey , Santosh Nannuru

The direction of arrival (DOA) estimation of sound sources has been a popular signal processing research topic due to its widespread applications. Using spherical microphone arrays (SMA), DOA estimation can be applied in the spherical…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-07 Hossein Lolaee , Mohammad Ali Akhaee

Active speaker detection requires a solid integration of multi-modal cues. While individual modalities can approximate a solution, accurate predictions can only be achieved by explicitly fusing the audio and visual features and modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Juan León-Alcázar , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Ali Thabet , Bernard Ghanem

With the rapid expansion of low-altitude economy (LAE) services and the growing demand for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in air-ground networks, reliable direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation has become essential for both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Ye Tian , Tuo Wu , Jintao Wu , He Xu , Yuanjun Shen , Xianfu Lei , Kin-Fai Tong

Sound event detection (SED) and localization refer to recognizing sound events and estimating their spatial and temporal locations. Using neural networks has become the prevailing method for SED. In the area of sound localization, which is…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Yin Cao , Qiuqiang Kong , Turab Iqbal , Fengyan An , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Humans can easily perceive the direction of sound sources in a visual scene, termed sound source localization. Recent studies on learning-based sound source localization have mainly explored the problem from a localization perspective.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Arda Senocak , Hyeonggon Ryu , Junsik Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh , Hanspeter Pfister , Joon Son Chung