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Recent advances in active noise control have enabled the development of hearables with spatial selectivity, which actively suppress undesired noise while preserving desired sound from specific directions. In this work, we propose an…
We propose an advance Steered Response Power (SRP) method for localizing multiple sources. While conventional SRP performs well in adverse conditions, it remains to struggle in scenarios with closely neighboring sources, resulting in…
An analysis of the relationship between the bandwidth of acoustic signals and the required resolution of steered-response power phase transform (SRP-PHAT) maps used for sound source localization is presented. This relationship does not rely…
This work describes and discusses an algorithm submitted to the Sound Event Localization and Detection Task of DCASE2019 Challenge. The proposed methodology relies on parametric spatial audio analysis for source localization and detection,…
In this paper, robust detection, tracking and geometry estimation methods are developed and combined into a system for estimating time-difference estimates, microphone localization and sound source movement. No assumptions on the 3D…
While the estimation of what sound sources are, when they occur, and from where they originate has been well-studied, the estimation of how loud these sound sources are has been often overlooked. Current solutions to this task, which we…
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…
Estimation of the direction-of-arrival (DoA) of a speaker in a room is important in many audio signal processing applications. Environments with reverberation that masks the DoA information are particularly challenging. Recently, a DoA…
Based on the normal mode and ray theory, this article discusses the characteristics of surface sound source and reception at the surface layer, and explores depth estimation methods based on normal modes and rays, and proposes a depth…
The information content of a spinning sound field is analyzed using a combination of exact and asymptotic results, in order to set limits on how accurately source identification can be carried out. Using a transformation of the circular…
Expressing head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) in spherical harmonic (SH) domain has been thoroughly studied as a method of obtaining continuity over space. However, HRTFs are functions not only of direction but also of frequency. This…
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,…
The physical position is crucial in location-aware services or protocols based on geographic information, where localization is performed given a set of sensor measurements for acquiring the position of an object with respect to a certain…
Short-range audio channels have a few distinguishing characteristics: ease of use, low deployment costs, and easy to tune frequencies, to cite a few. Moreover, thanks to their seamless adaptability to the security context, many techniques…
Recent advances in target sound extraction (TSE) utilize directional clues derived from direction of arrival (DoA), which represent an inherent spatial property of sound available in any acoustic scene. However, previous DoA-based methods…
Can uncorrelated surrounding sound sources be used to generate extended diffuse sound fields? By definition, targets are a constant sound pressure level, a vanishing average sound intensity, uncorrelated sound waves arriving isotropically…
The propagation of sound waves in a horizontally stratified environment, a classic problem in ocean acoustics, has traditionally been calculated using normal modes. Most programs based on the normal mode model are discretized using the…
The image source method (ISM) is often used to simulate room acoustics due to its ease of use and computational efficiency. The standard ISM is limited to simulations of room impulse responses between point sources and omnidirectional…
We present a joint SO(3)-spectral domain filtering framework using directional spatially localized spherical harmonic transform (DSLSHT), for the estimation and enhancement of random anisotropic signals on the sphere contaminated by random…
Active noise control (ANC) over a sizeable space requires a large number of reference and error microphones to satisfy the spatial Nyquist sampling criterion, which limits the feasibility of practical realization of such systems. This paper…