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Localizing a moving sound source in the real world involves determining its direction-of-arrival (DOA) and distance relative to a microphone. Advancements in DOA estimation have been facilitated by data-driven methods optimized with large…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Saksham Singh Kushwaha , Iran R. Roman , Magdalena Fuentes , Juan Pablo Bello

Existing methods utilizing spatial information for sound source separation require prior knowledge of the direction of arrival (DOA) of the source or utilize estimated but imprecise localization results, which impairs the separation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Donghang Wu , Xihong Wu , Tianshu Qu

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

Speaker localization in a reverberant environment is a fundamental problem in audio signal processing. Many solutions have been developed to tackle this problem. However, previous algorithms typically assume a stationary environment in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Daniel A. Mitchell , Boaz Rafaely

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

Audio-visual source localization is a challenging task that aims to predict the location of visual sound sources in a video. Since collecting ground-truth annotations of sounding objects can be costly, a plethora of weakly-supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Shentong Mo , Pedro Morgado

Most recent work in visual sound source localization relies on semantic audio-visual representations learned in a self-supervised manner, and by design excludes temporal information present in videos. While it proves to be effective for…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Rajsuryan Singh , Pablo Zinemanas , Xavier Serra , Juan Pablo Bello , Magdalena Fuentes

This document describes our submission to the 2018 LOCalization And TrAcking (LOCATA) challenge (Tasks 1, 3, 5). We estimate the 3D position of a speaker using the Global Coherence Field (GCF) computed from multiple microphone pairs of a…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Xinyuan Qian , Andrea Cavallaro , Alessio Brutti , Maurizio Omologo

Source seeking is an important topic in robotic research, especially considering sound-based sensors since they allow the agents to locate a target even in critical conditions where it is not possible to establish a direct line of sight. In…

Dynamic objects in the environment, such as people and other agents, lead to challenges for existing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) approaches. To deal with dynamic environments, computer vision researchers usually apply some…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Tianwei Zhang , Huayan Zhang , Xiaofei Li , Junfeng Chen , Tin Lun Lam , Sethu Vijayakumar

Accurate sound source localization (SSL), such as direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation, relies on consistent multichannel data. However, batteryless systems often suffer from missing data due to the stochastic nature of energy harvesting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Subrata Biswas , Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan , Violet Colwell , Jack Adiletta , Bashima Islam

Given an input sound signal and a target virtual sound source, sound spatialisation algorithms manipulate the signal so that a listener perceives it as though it were emitted from the target source. There exist several established…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Ali Tarzan , Marco Alunno , Paolo Bientinesi

Sound event localization and detection is a novel area of research that emerged from the combined interest of analyzing the acoustic scene in terms of the spatial and temporal activity of sounds of interest. This paper presents an overview…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Archontis Politis , Annamaria Mesaros , Sharath Adavanne , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

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

We present a method for simultaneously localizing multiple sound sources within a visual scene. This task requires a model to both group a sound mixture into individual sources, and to associate them with a visual signal. Our method jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Xixi Hu , Ziyang Chen , Andrew Owens

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

In cluttered environments where visual sensors encounter heavy occlusion, such as in agricultural settings, tactile signals can provide crucial spatial information for the robot to locate rigid objects and maneuver around them. We introduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Moonyoung Lee , Uksang Yoo , Jean Oh , Jeffrey Ichnowski , George Kantor , Oliver Kroemer

In the field of structural health monitoring (SHM), the acquisition of acoustic emissions to localise damage sources has emerged as a popular approach. Despite recent advances, the task of locating damage within composite materials and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Matthew R. Jones , Tim J. Rogers , Keith Worden , Elizabeth J. Cross

Conventional approaches to sound source localization require at least two microphones. It is known, however, that people with unilateral hearing loss can also localize sounds. Monaural localization is possible thanks to the scattering by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-29 Dalia El Badawy , Ivan Dokmanić

For underwater vehicles, robotic applications have the added difficulty of operating in highly unstructured and dynamic environments. Environmental effects impact not only the dynamics and controls of the robot but also the perception and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jingyu Song , Onur Bagoren , Katherine A. Skinner