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The objective of Audio Augmented Reality (AAR) applications are to seamlessly integrate virtual sound sources within a real environment. It is critical for these applications that virtual sources are localised precisely at the intended…
The goal of this paper is to estimate the directions of arrival (DoAs) for hybrid analog/digital (HAD) receivers when the number of snapshots is too small for statistical averaging to be reliable. This goal is achieved in fully-digital…
Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation employing low-resolution analog-to-digital convertors (ADCs) has emerged as a challenging and intriguing problem, particularly with the rise in popularity of large-scale arrays. The substantial…
In this paper, we address the problem of transmit beamspace design for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar with colocated antennas in application to direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. A new method for designing the transmit…
Fluid antenna (FA) technology has emerged as a promising approach in wireless communications due to its capability of providing increased degrees of freedom (DoFs) and exceptional design flexibility. This paper addresses the challenge of…
This paper proposes an efficient parameterization of the Room Transfer Function (RTF). Typically, the RTF rapidly varies with varying source and receiver positions, hence requires an impractical number of point to point measurements to…
Switches-based hybrid architecture has attracted much attention, especially in directional-of-arrival (DOA) sensing, due to its ability of significantly reducing the hardware cost by compressing massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)…
This paper investigates the problem of noncoherent direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using different sparse subarrays. In particular, we present a Multiple Measurements Vector (MMV) model for noncoherent DOA estimation based on a…
In this work, we propose a two-dimensional Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF)-based robust beamformer design for robot audition, which allows for explicit control of the beamformer response for the entire three-dimensional sound field…
In room acoustic environments, the Relative Transfer Functions (RTFs) are controlled by few underlying modes of variability. Accordingly, they are confined to a low-dimensional manifold. In this letter, we investigate a RTF inverse…
This paper proposes a novel bidirectional neural vocoder, named BiVocoder, capable both of feature extraction and reverse waveform generation within the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. For feature extraction, the BiVocoder takes…
This paper investigates the performance of Binaural Signal Matching (BSM) methods for near-field sound reproduction using a wearable glasses-mounted microphone array. BSM is a flexible, signal-independent approach for binaural rendering…
We propose a channel selection method for hearing aid applications using remote microphones, in the presence of multiple competing talkers. The proposed channel selection method uses the hearing aid user's head-steering direction to…
In this paper, the partial relaxation approach is introduced and applied to DOA estimation using spectral search. Unlike existing methods like Capon or MUSIC which can be considered as single source approximations of multi-source estimation…
We present a head-related transfer function (HRTF) estimation method which relies on a data-driven prior given by a score-based diffusion model. The HRTF is estimated in reverberant environments using natural excitation signals, e.g. human…
In higher-order Ambisonics, a framework for sound field reproduction, secondary-source driving signals are generally obtained by regularized mode matching. The authors have proposed a regularization technique based on direction-of-arrival…
An indoor localization approach uses Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) to estimate the Direction of Arrival (DoA) of the WiFi signals. This paper demonstrates FIND, a tool for Fine INDoor localization based on a software-defined radio, which…
Estimating the position of a speech source based on time-differences-of-arrival (TDOAs) is often adversely affected by background noise and reverberation. A popular method to estimate the TDOA between a microphone pair involves maximizing a…
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is expected to play a pivotal role in future wireless sensing networks owing to its potential for high-resolution and high-accuracy sensing. In this work, we investigate a multi-target…
We study direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation from coarsely quantized data. We focus on a two-step approach which first estimates the signal subspace via covariance estimation and then extracts DOA angles by the ESPRIT algorithm. In…