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Estimation of the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of sound sources is an important step in sound field analysis. Rigid spherical microphone arrays allow the calculation of a compact spherical harmonic representation of the sound field. A basic…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Mert Burkay Coteli , Orhun Olgun , Huseyin Hacihabiboglu

Accurately and efficiently addressing the multiple source localization (MSL) problem in urban environments, particularly designing a general method adaptable to an arbitrary number of sources, plays a crucial role in various fields such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Qilu Zhang , Hongying Tang , Wen Chen , Ziyi Song , Jiang Wang

In this paper, we propose a deep learning based multi-speaker direction of arrival (DOA) estimation with audio and visual signals by using permutation-free loss function. We first collect a data set for multi-modal sound source localization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-27 Qing Wang , Hang Chen , Ya Jiang , Zhe Wang , Yuyang Wang , Jun Du , Chin-Hui Lee

In many signal processing applications, metadata may be advantageously used in conjunction with a high dimensional signal to produce a desired output. In the case of classical Sound Source Localization (SSL) algorithms, information from a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Eric Grinstein , Vincent W. Neo , Patrick A. Naylor

Acoustic indoor localization offers the potential for highly accurate position estimation while generally exhibiting low hardware requirements compared to Radio Frequency (RF)-based solutions. Furthermore, angular-based localization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Georg K. J. Fischer , Thomas Schaechtle , Moritz Schabinger , Alexander Richter , Ivo Häring , Fabian Höflinger , Stefan J. Rupitsch

This paper proposes a new paradigm for handling far-field multi-speaker data in an end-to-end neural network manner, called directional automatic speech recognition (D-ASR), which explicitly models source speaker locations. In D-ASR, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Chao Weng , Shinji Watanabe , Meng Yu , Yong Xu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation is a common sensing problem in radar, sonar, audio, and wireless communication systems. It has gained renewed importance with the advent of the integrated sensing and communication paradigm. To fully…

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

This paper investigates the joint localization, detection, and tracking of sound events using a convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN). We use a CRNN previously proposed for the localization and detection of stationary sources, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Sharath Adavanne , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

The localization of multiple signal sources using sensor arrays has been a long-standing research challenge. While numerous solutions have been developed, signal space methods like MUSIC and ESPRIT have gained widespread popularity. As…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Mehdi Haghshenas , Aamir Mahmood , Mikael Gidlund

Sound source localization (SSL) demonstrates remarkable results in controlled settings but struggles in real-world deployment due to dual imbalance challenges: intra-task imbalance arising from long-tailed direction-of-arrival (DoA)…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zexia Fan , Yu Chen , Qiquan Zhang , Kainan Chen , Xinyuan Qian

We present a system for localizing sound sources in a room with several ad-hoc microphone arrays. Each circular array performs direction of arrival (DOA) estimation independently using commercial software. The DOAs are fed to a fusion…

Source localization is the process of estimating the location of signal sources based on the signals received at different antennas of an antenna array. It has diverse applications, ranging from radar systems and underwater acoustics to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Parisa Ramezani , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Sound Source Localization (SSL) enabling technology for applications such as surveillance and robotics. While traditional Signal Processing (SP)-based SSL methods provide analytic solutions under specific signal and noise assumptions,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Xinyuan Qian , Xianghu Yue , Jiadong Wang , Huiping Zhuang , Haizhou Li

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

Unsupervised audio-visual source localization aims at localizing visible sound sources in a video without relying on ground-truth localization for training. Previous works often seek high audio-visual similarities for likely positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Shentong Mo , Pedro Morgado

We address the problem of estimating direction-of-arrivals (DOAs) for multiple acoustic sources in a reverberant environment using a spherical microphone array. It is well-known that multi-source DOA estimation is challenging in the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Rohith Mars , Hiroyuki Ehara , Srikanth Nagisetty , Chong Soon Lim

In traditional sound event localization and detection (SELD) tasks, the focus is typically on sound event detection (SED) and direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, but they fall short of providing full spatial information about the sound…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yuxuan Dong , Qing Wang , Hengyi Hong , Ya Jiang , Shi Cheng

Sound source localization (SSL) technology plays a crucial role in various application areas such as fault diagnosis, speech separation, and vibration noise reduction. Although beamforming algorithms are widely used in SSL, their resolution…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Wenbo Ma , Yan Lu , Yijun Liu

Conventional sound source localization methods are mostly based on a single microphone array that consists of multiple microphones. They are usually formulated as the estimation of the direction of arrival problem. In this paper, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Yijun Gong , Shupei Liu , Xiao-Lei Zhang