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Conventional approaches to sound source localization require at least two microphones. It is known, however, that people with unilateral hearing loss can also localize sounds. Monaural localization is possible thanks to the scattering by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-29 Dalia El Badawy , Ivan Dokmanić

Sound source localization aims to seek the direction of arrival (DOA) of all sound sources from the observed multi-channel audio. For the practical problem of unknown number of sources, existing localization algorithms attempt to predict a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Yanjie Fu , Meng Ge , Haoran Yin , Xinyuan Qian , Longbiao Wang , Gaoyan Zhang , Jianwu Dang

Sound source tracking is commonly performed using classical array-processing algorithms, while machine-learning approaches typically rely on precise source position labels that are expensive or impractical to obtain. This paper introduces a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Luan Vinícius Fiorio , Ivana Nikoloska , Bruno Defraene , Alex Young , Johan David , Ronald M. Aarts

Sound event detection (SED) and acoustic scene classification (ASC) are major tasks in environmental sound analysis. Considering that sound events and scenes are closely related to each other, some works have addressed joint analyses of…

Recently, Visual Foundation Models (VFMs) have shown a remarkable generalization performance in 3D perception tasks. However, their effectiveness in large-scale outdoor datasets remains constrained by the scarcity of accurate supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Pufan Zou , Shijia Zhao , Weijie Huang , Qiming Xia , Chenglu Wen , Wei Li , Cheng Wang

Discriminatively localizing sounding objects in cocktail-party, i.e., mixed sound scenes, is commonplace for humans, but still challenging for machines. In this paper, we propose a two-stage learning framework to perform self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Di Hu , Rui Qian , Minyue Jiang , Xiao Tan , Shilei Wen , Errui Ding , Weiyao Lin , Dejing Dou

This paper presents a sound source localization strategy that relies on a microphone array embedded in an unmanned ground vehicle and an asynchronous close-talking microphone near the operator. A signal coarse alignment strategy is combined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Victor Liu , Timothy Du , Jordy Sehn , Jack Collier , François Grondin

The problem of source localization with ad hoc microphone networks in noisy and reverberant enclosures, given a training set of prerecorded measurements, is addressed in this paper. The training set is assumed to consist of a limited number…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Bracha Laufer-Goldshtein , Ronen Talmon , Sharon Gannot

Abstract While vision-based localization techniques have been widely studied for small autonomous unmanned vehicles (SAUVs), sound-source localization capabilities have not been fully enabled for SAUVs. This paper presents two novel…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Deepak Gala , Nathan Lindsay , Liang Sun

Label-noise learning (LNL) aims to increase the model's generalization given training data with noisy labels. To facilitate practical LNL algorithms, researchers have proposed different label noise types, ranging from class-conditional to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Jingfeng Zhang , Bo Song , Haohan Wang , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu , Lei Liu , Masashi Sugiyama

Recently, speech recognition with ad-hoc microphone arrays has received much attention. It is known that channel selection is an important problem of ad-hoc microphone arrays, however, this topic seems far from explored in speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Junqi Chen , Xiao-Lei Zhang

Learning with noisy labels has aroused much research interest since data annotations, especially for large-scale datasets, may be inevitably imperfect. Recent approaches resort to a semi-supervised learning problem by dividing training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Kai Wang , Xiangyu Peng , Shuo Yang , Jianfei Yang , Zheng Zhu , Xinchao Wang , Yang You

For end-to-end speech translation, regularizing the encoder with the Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) objective using the source transcript or target translation as labels can greatly improve quality metrics. However, CTC demands…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Biao Zhang , Barry Haddow , Rico Sennrich

Neurophysiological time series, such as electromyographic signal and intracortical recordings, are typically composed of many individual spiking sources, the recovery of which can give fundamental insights into the biological system of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Alexander Kenneth Clarke , Dario Farina

This article is a survey on deep learning methods for single and multiple sound source localization. We are particularly interested in sound source localization in indoor/domestic environment, where reverberation and diffuse noise are…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Pierre-Amaury Grumiaux , Srđan Kitić , Laurent Girin , Alexandre Guérin

Continuous pseudo-labeling (PL) algorithms such as slimIPL have recently emerged as a powerful strategy for semi-supervised learning in speech recognition. In contrast with earlier strategies that alternated between training a model and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Tatiana Likhomanenko , Ronan Collobert , Navdeep Jaitly , Samy Bengio

In this work, we present the development of a new database, namely Sound Localization and Classification (SLoClas) corpus, for studying and analyzing sound localization and classification. The corpus contains a total of 23.27 hours of data…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Xinyuan Qian , Bidisha Sharma , Amine El Abridi , Haizhou Li

Label smoothing is an effective regularization tool for deep neural networks (DNNs), which generates soft labels by applying a weighted average between the uniform distribution and the hard label. It is often used to reduce the overfitting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Chang-Bin Zhang , Peng-Tao Jiang , Qibin Hou , Yunchao Wei , Qi Han , Zhen Li , Ming-Ming Cheng

One-hot encoding is a labelling system that embeds classes as standard basis vectors in a label space. Despite seeing near-universal use in supervised categorical classification tasks, the scheme is problematic in its geometric implication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Conor Sheehan , Ben Day , Pietro Liò

We propose a method, called Label Embedding Network, which can learn label representation (label embedding) during the training process of deep networks. With the proposed method, the label embedding is adaptively and automatically learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Xu Sun , Bingzhen Wei , Xuancheng Ren , Shuming Ma