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Estimation of the direction-of-arrival (DoA) of a speaker in a room is important in many audio signal processing applications. Environments with reverberation that masks the DoA information are particularly challenging. Recently, a DoA…

A robust method for linear array is proposed to address the difficulty of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in reverberant and noisy environments. A direct-path dominance test based on the onset detection is utilized to extract…

Multiple moving sound source localization in real-world scenarios remains a challenging issue due to interaction between sources, time-varying trajectories, distorted spatial cues, etc. In this work, we propose to use deep learning…

Extracting direct-path spatial feature is crucial for sound source localization in adverse acoustic environments. This paper proposes the IPDnet, a neural network that estimates direct-path inter-channel phase difference (DP-IPD) of sound…

Direct-path relative transfer function (DP-RTF) refers to the ratio between the direct-path acoustic transfer functions of two microphone channels. Though DP-RTF fully encodes the sound spatial cues and serves as a reliable localization…

This paper addresses the problem of binaural localization of a single speech source in noisy and reverberant environments. For a given binaural microphone setup, the binaural response corresponding to the direct-path propagation of a single…

Accurate Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation in reverberant environments remains a fundamental challenge for spatial audio applications. While deep learning methods have shown strong performance in such conditions, they typically lack a…

We describe a new method for estimating the direction of sound in a reverberant environment from basic principles of sound propagation. The method utilizes SNR-adaptive features from time-delay and energy of the directional components after…

Sound source proximity and distance estimation are of great interest in many practical applications, since they provide significant information for acoustic scene analysis. As both tasks share complementary qualities, ensuring efficient…

Capturing audio signals with specific directivity patterns is essential in speech communication. This study presents a deep neural network (DNN)-based approach to directional filtering, alleviating the need for explicit signal models. More…

Models for audio source separation usually operate on the magnitude spectrum, which ignores phase information and makes separation performance dependant on hyper-parameters for the spectral front-end. Therefore, we investigate end-to-end…

This article presents a method for estimating and reconstructing the spatial energy distribution pattern of natural speech, which is crucial for achieving realistic vocal presence in virtual communication settings. The method comprises two…

In this research, we present an innovative, parameter-efficient model that utilizes the attention U-Net architecture for the automatic detection and eradication of non-speech vocal sounds, specifically breath sounds, in vocal recordings.…

In multi-speaker scenarios, leveraging spatial features is essential for enhancing target speech. While with limited microphone arrays, developing a compact multi-channel speech enhancement system remains challenging, especially in…

We propose a novel Neural Steering technique that adapts the target area of a spatial-aware multi-microphone sound source separation algorithm during inference without the necessity of retraining the deep neural network (DNN). To achieve…

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…

In this paper we propose a highly efficient and very accurate deep learning method for estimating the propagation pathloss from a point $x$ (transmitter location) to any point $y$ on a planar domain. For applications such as user-cell site…

In recent years, many deep learning techniques for single-channel sound source separation have been proposed using recurrent, convolutional and transformer networks. When multiple microphones are available, spatial diversity between…

Accurate trajectory prediction is crucial for autonomous driving, yet uncertainty in agent behavior and perception noise makes it inherently challenging. While multi-modal trajectory prediction models generate multiple plausible future…

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…