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Moving around in the world is naturally a multisensory experience, but today's embodied agents are deaf---restricted to solely their visual perception of the environment. We introduce audio-visual navigation for complex, acoustically and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Changan Chen , Unnat Jain , Carl Schissler , Sebastia Vicenc Amengual Gari , Ziad Al-Halah , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu , Philip Robinson , Kristen Grauman

For extracting a target speaker voice, direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is crucial for binaural hearing aids operating in noisy, multi-speaker environments. Among the solutions developed for this task, a deep learning convolutional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Farnaz Jazaeri , Homayoun Kamkar-Parsi , François Grondin , Martin Bouchard

In this paper, we develop a new technique to obtain nearly optimal estimates of the computational resolution limits introduced in Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal. 56 (2022) 402-446; IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 67(7) (2021) 4812-4827; Inverse Probl.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Ping Liu , Habib Ammari

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is an important task in microphone array processing and many downstream applications. The steered response power with phase transform (SRP-PHAT) method has been widely adopted for DOA estimation in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Ming Huang , Shuting Xu , Leying Yang , Huanzhang Hu , Yujie Zhang , Jiang Wang , Yu Liu , Hao Zhao , He Kong

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is a classical problem in signal processing with many practical applications. Its research has recently been advanced owing to the development of methods based on sparse signal reconstruction. While…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-18 Zai Yang , Lihua Xie , Cishen Zhang

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

We study the problem of multimodal physical scene understanding, where an embodied agent needs to find fallen objects by inferring object properties, direction, and distance of an impact sound source. Previous works adopt feed-forward…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jie Yin , Andrew Luo , Yilun Du , Anoop Cherian , Tim K. Marks , Jonathan Le Roux , Chuang Gan

Recently, a relative transfer function (RTF)-vector-based method has been proposed to estimate the direction of arrival (DOA) of a target speaker for a binaural hearing aid setup, assuming the availability of external microphones. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Daniel Fejgin , Simon Doclo

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

Direction finding and positioning systems based on RF signals are significantly impacted by multipath propagation, particularly in indoor environments. Existing algorithms (e.g MUSIC) perform poorly in resolving Angle of Arrival (AoA) in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-13 Zhuangzhuang Dai , Yuhang He , Tran Vu , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

This paper investigates joint direction-of-arrival (DOA) and attitude sensing using tri-polarized continuous aperture arrays (CAPAs). By employing electromagnetic (EM) information theory, the spatially continuous received signals in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Haonan Si , Zhaolin Wang , Xiansheng Guo , Jin Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

With the recent advancements in AI, Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVA) have become a ubiquitous part of every home. Going forward, we are witnessing a confluence of vision, speech and dialog system technologies that are enabling the IVAs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Shachi H Kumar , Eda Okur , Saurav Sahay , Juan Jose Alvarado Leanos , Jonathan Huang , Lama Nachman

In this paper, the problem of determining the number of signal sources impinging on an array of sensors and estimating their directions-of-arrival (DOAs) in the presence of spatially white nonuniform noise is considered. It is known that,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-10 Mahmood Karimi

Sounds reach one microphone in a stereo pair sooner than the other, resulting in an interaural time delay that conveys their directions. Estimating a sound's time delay requires finding correspondences between the signals recorded by each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Ziyang Chen , David F. Fouhey , Andrew Owens

In this paper, a fast algorithm for the Direction Of Arrival (DOA) estimation of radiating sources, based on partial covariance matrix and without eigende- composition of incoming signals is extended to two dimensional problem of joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Y. Khmou , S. Safi

We introduce the active audio-visual source separation problem, where an agent must move intelligently in order to better isolate the sounds coming from an object of interest in its environment. The agent hears multiple audio sources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Sagnik Majumder , Ziad Al-Halah , Kristen Grauman

Humans can picture a sound scene given an imprecise natural language description. For example, it is easy to imagine an acoustic environment given a phrase like "the lion roar came from right behind me!". For a machine to have the same…

Audio-visual navigation task requires an agent to find a sound source in a realistic, unmapped 3D environment by utilizing egocentric audio-visual observations. Existing audio-visual navigation works assume a clean environment that solely…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Yinfeng Yu , Wenbing Huang , Fuchun Sun , Changan Chen , Yikai Wang , Xiaohong Liu

Accurately estimating the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of a speech source using a compact microphone array (CMA) is often complicated by background noise and reverberation. A commonly used DOA estimation method is the steered response power…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Klaus Brümann , Simon Doclo

Aiming at estimating the direction of arrival (DOA) of a desired speaker in a multi-talker environment using a microphone array, in this paper we propose a signal-informed method exploiting the availability of an external microphone…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Ulrik Kowalk , Simon Doclo , Joerg Bitzer