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We investigate an method for quantifying city characteristics based on impressions of a sound environment. The quantification of the city characteristics will be beneficial to government policy planning, tourism projects, etc. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Yusuke Ono , Sunao Hara , Masanobu Abe

Sound source tracking is commonly performed using classical array-processing algorithms, while machine-learning approaches typically rely on precise source position labels that are expensive or impractical to obtain. This paper introduces a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Luan Vinícius Fiorio , Ivana Nikoloska , Bruno Defraene , Alex Young , Johan David , Ronald M. Aarts

In a sensor network with remote sensor devices, it is important to have a method that can accurately localize a sound event with a small amount of data transmitted from the sensors. In this paper, we propose a novel method for localization…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-03-01 Hong Jiang , Boyd Mathews , Paul Wilford

Spatial audio is an essential medium to audiences for 3D visual and auditory experience. However, the recording devices and techniques are expensive or inaccessible to the general public. In this work, we propose a self-supervised audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Yu-Ding Lu , Hsin-Ying Lee , Hung-Yu Tseng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

An important problem in machine auditory perception is to recognize and detect sound events. In this paper, we propose a sequential self-teaching approach to learning sounds. Our main proposition is that it is harder to learn sounds in…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Anurag Kumar , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu

Visual and audio events simultaneously occur and both attract attention. However, most existing saliency prediction works ignore the influence of audio and only consider vision modality. In this paper, we propose a multitask learning method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Minglang Qiao , Yufan Liu , Mai Xu , Xin Deng , Bing Li , Weiming Hu , Ali Borji

Despite surveillance systems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in our living environment, automated surveillance, currently based on video sensory modality and machine intelligence, lacks most of the time the robustness and reliability…

Sound · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Marco Crocco , Marco Cristani , Andrea Trucco , Vittorio Murino

We consider the sound ranging, or source localization, problem - find the source-point from the moments when the wave-sphere of linearly, with time, increasing radius reaches the sensor-points - in the proper metric spaces (any closed ball…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Sergij V. Goncharov

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…

Learning-based methods have become ubiquitous in speaker localization. Existing systems rely on simulated training sets for the lack of sufficiently large, diverse and annotated real datasets. Most room acoustics simulators used for this…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Prerak Srivastava , Antoine Deleforge , Archontis Politis , Emmanuel Vincent

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

As the technology is advancing, audio recognition in machine learning is improved as well. Research in audio recognition has traditionally focused on speech. Living creatures (especially the small ones) are part of the whole ecosystem,…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Siddhardha Balemarthy , Atul Sajjanhar , James Xi Zheng

Visual sound source localization poses a significant challenge in identifying the semantic region of each sounding source within a video. Existing self-supervised and weakly supervised source localization methods struggle to accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tanvir Mahmud , Yapeng Tian , Diana Marculescu

Audiovisual instance segmentation (AVIS) requires accurately localizing and tracking sounding objects throughout video sequences. Existing methods suffer from visual bias stemming from two fundamental issues: uniform additive fusion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Jinbae Seo , Hyeongjun Kwon , Kwonyoung Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Kwanghoon Sohn

Source localization and spectral estimation are among the most fundamental problems in statistical and array signal processing. Methods which rely on the orthogonality of the signal and noise subspaces, such as Pisarenko's method, MUSIC,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Matthew W. Morency , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Geert Leus

Audio captioning aims to generate text descriptions of audio clips. In the real world, many objects produce similar sounds. How to accurately recognize ambiguous sounds is a major challenge for audio captioning. In this work, inspired by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Xubo Liu , Qiushi Huang , Xinhao Mei , Haohe Liu , Qiuqiang Kong , Jianyuan Sun , Shengchen Li , Tom Ko , Yu Zhang , Lilian H. Tang , Mark D. Plumbley , Volkan Kılıç , Wenwu Wang

Real-world sound scenes consist of time-varying collections of sound sources, each generating characteristic sound events that are mixed together in audio recordings. The association of these constituent sound events with their mixture and…

The acoustic cues used by humans and other animals to localise sounds are subtle, and change during and after development. This means that we need to constantly relearn or recalibrate the auditory spatial map throughout our lifetimes. This…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yang Chu , Wayne Luk , Dan Goodman

We learn rich natural sound representations by capitalizing on large amounts of unlabeled sound data collected in the wild. We leverage the natural synchronization between vision and sound to learn an acoustic representation using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Yusuf Aytar , Carl Vondrick , Antonio Torralba

In this work we apply Amplitude Modulation Spectrum (AMS) features to the source localization problem. Our approach computes 36 bilateral features for 2s long signal segments and estimates the azimuthal directions of a sound source through…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Semih Ağcaer , Rainer Martin