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Direction-of-arrival estimation of multiple speakers in a room is an important task for a wide range of applications. In particular, challenging environments with moving speakers, reverberation and noise, lead to significant performance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Daniel A. Mitchell , Boaz Rafaely , Anurag Kumar , Vladimir Tourbabin

The estimation of the direction of electromagnetic (EM) waves from a radio source using electrically short antennas is one of the challenging problems in the field of radio astronomy. In this paper we have developed an algorithm which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Harsha A. Tanti , Abhirup Datta , S. Ananthakrishnan

A popular method to estimate the positions or directions-of-arrival (DOAs) of multiple sound sources using an array of microphones is based on steered-response power (SRP) beamforming. For a three-dimensional scenario, SRP-based methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Klaus Brümann , Simon Doclo

Conventional direction of arrival (DOA) estimators are based on array processing using either time differences or beamforming. The proposed approach is based on the received power at each microphone, which enables simple hardware, low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Gustav Zetterqvist , Fredrik Gustafsson , Gustaf Hendeby

We present a MUSIC-based Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation strategy using small antenna arrays, via employing deep learning for reconstructing the signals of a virtual large antenna array. Not only does the proposed strategy deliver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Aya Mostafa Ahmed , Udaya Sampath K. P. Miriya Thanthrige , Aly El Gamal , Aydin Sezgin

Direction finding and positioning systems based on RF signals are significantly impacted by multipath propagation, particularly in indoor environments. Existing algorithms (e.g MUSIC) perform poorly in resolving Angle of Arrival (AoA) in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-13 Zhuangzhuang Dai , Yuhang He , Tran Vu , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

In this paper, a deep learning approach is presented for direction of arrival estimation using automotive-grade ultrasonic sensors which are used for driving assistance systems such as automatic parking. A study and implementation of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-28 Mohamed Shawki Elamir , Heinrich Gotzig , Raoul Zoellner , Patrick Maeder

This paper presents a method for real-time estimation of 2-dimensional direction of arrival (2D-DOA) of one or more sound sources using a nonlinear array of three microphones. 2D-DOA is estimated employing frame-level time difference of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Anton Kovalyov , Kashyap Patel , Issa Panahi

Sensing emerges as a critical challenge in 6G networks, which require simultaneous communication and target sensing capabilities. State-of-the-art super-resolution techniques for the direction of arrival (DoA) estimation encounter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Murat Babek Salman , Emil Björnson

To improve the accuracy of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, a deep learning (DL)-based method called CDAE-DNN is proposed for hybrid analog and digital (HAD) massive MIMO receive array with overlapped subarray (OSA) architecture in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Yifan Li , Baihua Shi , Feng Shu , Yaoliang Song , Jiangzhou Wang

The direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation problem involves the localization of a few sources from a limited number of observations on an array of sensors, thus it can be formulated as a sparse signal reconstruction problem and solved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Angeliki Xenaki , Peter Gerstoft

Acoustoelectric (AE) imaging provides electro-anatomical contrast by mapping the distribution of electric fields in biological tissues, by delivering ultrasound waves which spatially modulate the medium resistivity via the AE effect. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Wei Yi Oon , Yuchen Tang , Baiqian Qi , Wei-Ning Lee

The problem of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in the presence of nonuniform sensor noise is considered and a novel algorithm is developed. The algorithm consists of three phases. First, the diagonal nonuniform sensor noise covariance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Majdoddin Esfandiari , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

A robust method for linear array is proposed to address the difficulty of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in reverberant and noisy environments. A direct-path dominance test based on the onset detection is utilized to extract…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-16 Hao Wang , Jing Lu

Standard Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation methods are typically derived based on the Gaussian noise assumption, making them highly sensitive to outliers. Therefore, in the presence of impulsive noise, the performance of these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Y. Li , W. Xiao , L. Zhao , Z. Huang , Q. Li , L. Li , R. C. de Lamare

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Sjoerd Dirksen , Weilin Li , Johannes Maly

We propose a direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation method for Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). Direct estimation of DOA using a deep neural network (DNN), i.e. completely-datadriven approach, achieves high accuracy. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Masahiro Yasuda , Yuma Koizumi , Shoichiro Saito , Hisashi Uematsu , Keisuke Imoto

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is widely applied in acoustic source localization. A multi-frequency model is suitable for characterizing the broadband structure in acoustic signals. In this paper, the continuous (gridless) DOA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Yifan Wu , Michael B. Wakin , Peter Gerstoft

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

Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation is a fundamental task in array processing. A popular family of DoA estimation algorithms are subspace methods, which operate by dividing the measurements into distinct signal and noise subspaces.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Dor H. Shmuel , Julian P. Merkofer , Guy Revach , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Nir Shlezinger