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In the analysis of acoustic scenes, often the occurring sounds have to be detected in time, recognized, and localized in space. Usually, each of these tasks is done separately. In this paper, a model-based approach to jointly carry them out…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Rupayan Chakraborty , Climent Nadeu

We present a novel approach to the 3D sound source localization task for distributed ad-hoc microphone arrays by formulating it as a set-to-set regression problem. By training a multi-modal masked autoencoder model that operates on audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Axel Berg , Jens Gulin , Mark O'Connor , Chuteng Zhou , Karl Åström , Magnus Oskarsson

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

In multichannel signal processing with distributed sensors, choosing the optimal subset of observed sensor signals to be exploited is crucial in order to maximize algorithmic performance and reduce computational load, ideally both at the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Michael Günther , Andreas Brendel , Walter Kellermann

Visual events are usually accompanied by sounds in our daily lives. However, can the machines learn to correlate the visual scene and sound, as well as localize the sound source only by observing them like humans? To investigate its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Arda Senocak , Tae-Hyun Oh , Junsik Kim , Ming-Hsuan Yang , In So Kweon

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

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

Though playing an essential role in smart home systems, smart speakers are vulnerable to voice spoofing attacks. Passive liveness detection, which utilizes only the collected audio rather than the deployed sensors to distinguish between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yan Meng , Jiachun Li , Matthew Pillari , Arjun Deopujari , Liam Brennan , Hafsah Shamsie , Haojin Zhu , Yuan Tian

We propose BeamTransformer, an efficient architecture to leverage beamformer's edge in spatial filtering and transformer's capability in context sequence modeling. BeamTransformer seeks to optimize modeling of sequential relationship among…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Siqi Zheng , Shiliang Zhang , Weilong Huang , Qian Chen , Hongbin Suo , Ming Lei , Jinwei Feng , Zhijie Yan

How to visually localize multiple sound sources in unconstrained videos is a formidable problem, especially when lack of the pairwise sound-object annotations. To solve this problem, we develop a two-stage audiovisual learning framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Rui Qian , Di Hu , Heinrich Dinkel , Mengyue Wu , Ning Xu , Weiyao Lin

Sound sources localization using multichannel signal processing has been a subject of active research for decades. In recent years, the use of deep learning in audio signal processing has allowed to drastically improve performances for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Hadrien Pujol , Éric Bavu , Alexandre Garcia

This paper introduces SmartBelt, a wearable microphone array on a belt that performs sound source localization and returns the direction of arrival with respect to the user waist. One of the haptic motors on the belt then vibrates in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Simon Michaud , Benjamin Moffett , Ana Tapia Rousiouk , Victoria Duda , François Grondin

Most existing Large Language Model (LLM)-based agent frameworks rely on centralized orchestration, incurring high deployment costs, rigid communication topologies, and limited adaptability. To address these challenges, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Ji Wang , Kashing Chen , Xinyuan Song , Ke Zhang , Lynn Ai , Eric Yang , Bill Shi

We propose to use neural networks for simultaneous detection and localization of multiple sound sources in human-robot interaction. In contrast to conventional signal processing techniques, neural network-based sound source localization…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Weipeng He , Petr Motlicek , Jean-Marc Odobez

We present a novel, reflection-aware method for 3D sound localization in indoor environments. Unlike prior approaches, which are mainly based on continuous sound signals from a stationary source, our formulation is designed to localize the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Inkyu An , Myungbae Son , Dinesh Manocha , Sung-eui Yoon

Purpose: Surgical scene understanding is key to advancing computer-aided and intelligent surgical systems. Current approaches predominantly rely on visual data or end-to-end learning, which limits fine-grained contextual modeling. This work…

The use of spatial information with multiple microphones can improve far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR) accuracy. However, conventional microphone array techniques degrade speech enhancement performance when there is an array…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-23 Kenichi Kumatani , Minhua Wu , Shiva Sundaram , Nikko Strom , Bjorn Hoffmeister

During the performance of sound source localization which uses both visual and aural information, it presently remains unclear how much either image or sound modalities contribute to the result, i.e. do we need both image and sound for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Takashi Oya , Shohei Iwase , Ryota Natsume , Takahiro Itazuri , Shugo Yamaguchi , Shigeo Morishima

Polyphonic sound event detection and direction-of-arrival estimation require different input features from audio signals. While sound event detection mainly relies on time-frequency patterns, direction-of-arrival estimation relies on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Douglas L. Jones , Woon-Seng Gan

Developing algorithms for sound classification, detection, and localization requires large amounts of flexible and realistic audio data, especially when leveraging modern machine learning and beamforming techniques. However, most existing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Luca Barbisan , Marco Levorato , Fabrizio Riente