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Room acoustics measurements are used in many areas of audio research, from physical acoustics modelling and speech enhancement to virtual reality applications. This paper documents the technical specifications and choices made in the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Thomas McKenzie , Leo McCormack , Christoph Hold

Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) is a problem related to the field of machine listening whose objective is to recognize individual sound events, detect their temporal activity, and estimate their spatial location. Thanks to the…

Acoustic environments affect acoustic characteristics of sound to be recognized by physically interacting with sound wave propagation. Thus, training acoustic models for audio and speech tasks requires regularization on various acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Hyeonuk Nam , Seong-Hu Kim , Yong-Hwa Park

This study presents an audio-visual information fusion approach to sound event localization and detection (SELD) in low-resource scenarios. We aim at utilizing audio and video modality information through cross-modal learning and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Ya Jiang , Qing Wang , Jun Du , Maocheng Hu , Pengfei Hu , Zeyan Liu , Shi Cheng , Zhaoxu Nian , Yuxuan Dong , Mingqi Cai , Xin Fang , Chin-Hui Lee

We address the problem of estimating room impulse responses (RIRs) in noisy, uncontrolled environments where non-stationary sounds such as speech or footsteps corrupt conventional deconvolution. We propose AnyRIR, a non-intrusive method…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Kyung Yun Lee , Nils Meyer-Kahlen , Karolina Prawda , Vesa Välimäki , Sebastian J. Schlecht

Data synthesis and augmentation are essential for Sound Event Detection (SED) due to the scarcity of temporally labeled data. While augmentation methods like SpecAugment and Mix-up can enhance model performance, they remain constrained by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Jiarui Hai , Mounya Elhilali

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) aims to determine the appearance of sound classes, together with their Direction of Arrival (DOA). However, current SELD systems can only predict the activities of specific classes, for example,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Jinzheng Zhao , Xinyuan Qian , Yong Xu , Haohe Liu , Yin Cao , Davide Berghi , Wenwu Wang

Knowing the room geometry may be very beneficial for many audio applications, including sound reproduction, acoustic scene analysis, and sound source localization. Room geometry inference (RGI) deals with the problem of reflector…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Cagdas Tuna , Altan Akat , H. Nazim Bicer , Andreas Walther , Emanuël A. P. Habets

We present a novel approach that improves the performance of reverberant speech separation. Our approach is based on an accurate geometric acoustic simulator (GAS) which generates realistic room impulse responses (RIRs) by modeling both…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Rohith Aralikatti , Anton Ratnarajah , Zhenyu Tang , Dinesh Manocha

Our goal is to develop a sound event localization and detection (SELD) system that works robustly in unknown environments. A SELD system trained on known environment data is degraded in an unknown environment due to environmental effects…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Masahiro Yasuda , Yasunori Ohishi , Shoichiro Saito

Polyphonic sound event localization and detection (SELD) aims at detecting types of sound events with corresponding temporal activities and spatial locations. In this paper, a track-wise ensemble event independent network with a novel data…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Qiuqiang Kong , Feiran Yang , Mark D. Plumbley , Jun Yang

We introduce a computationally efficient and tunable feedback delay network (FDN) architecture for real-time room impulse response (RIR) rendering that addresses the computational and latency challenges inherent in traditional convolution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Armin Gerami , Ramani Duraiswami

This letter introduces a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) structure into near-field localization systems to enhance the design flexibility of IRS, thereby obtaining additional performance gains.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Hanfu Zhang , Yidan Mei , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang

Environment shifts and conflicts present significant challenges for learning-based sound event localization and detection (SELD) methods. SELD systems, when trained in particular acoustic settings, often show restricted generalization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Jinbo Hu , Yin Cao , Ming Wu , Qiuqiang Kong , Feiran Yang , Mark D. Plumbley , Jun Yang

This report presents the dataset and the evaluation setup of the Sound Event Localization & Detection (SELD) task for the DCASE 2020 Challenge. The SELD task refers to the problem of trying to simultaneously classify a known set of sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Archontis Politis , Sharath Adavanne , Tuomas Virtanen

As humans, we hear sound every second of our life. The sound we hear is often affected by the acoustics of the environment surrounding us. For example, a spacious hall leads to more reverberation. Room Impulse Responses (RIR) are commonly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yinfeng Yu , Changan Chen , Lele Cao , Fangkai Yang , Fuchun Sun

Room impulse response (RIR), which measures the sound propagation within an environment, is critical for synthesizing high-fidelity audio for a given environment. Some prior work has proposed representing RIR as a neural field function of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Susan Liang , Chao Huang , Yapeng Tian , Anurag Kumar , Chenliang Xu

In the context of building acoustics and the acoustic diagnosis of an existing room, this paper introduces and investigates a new approach to estimate mean absorption coefficients solely from a room impulse response (RIR). This inverse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Cédric Foy , Antoine Deleforge , Diego Di Carlo

This report presents our systems submitted to the audio-only and audio-visual tracks of the DCASE2025 Task 3 Challenge: Stereo Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) in Regular Video Content. SELD is a complex task that combines…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Davide Berghi , Philip J. B. Jackson

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) is critical for various real-world applications, including smart monitoring and Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Although deep neural networks (DNNs) represent the state-of-the-art approach for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Jun Wei Yeow , Ee-Leng Tan , Jisheng Bai , Santi Peksi , Woon-Seng Gan