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Augmented listening devices such as hearing aids often perform poorly in noisy and reverberant environments with many competing sound sources. Large distributed microphone arrays can improve performance, but data from remote microphones…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Ryan M. Corey , Matthew D. Skarha , Andrew C. Singer

The goal of the multi-sound source localization task is to localize sound sources from the mixture individually. While recent multi-sound source localization methods have shown improved performance, they face challenges due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Dongjin Kim , Sung Jin Um , Sangmin Lee , Jung Uk Kim

A method for sound field decomposition based on neural networks is proposed. The method comprises two stages: a sound field separation stage and a single-source localization stage. In the first stage, the sound pressure at microphones…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Ryo Matsuda , Makoto Otani

We present a novel, robust sound source localization algorithm considering back-propagation signals. Sound propagation paths are estimated by generating direct and reflection acoustic rays based on ray tracing in a backward manner. We then…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Inkyu An , Doheon Lee , Byeongho Jo , Jung-Woo Choi , Sung-Eui Yoon

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

Humans can easily perceive the direction of sound sources in a visual scene, termed sound source localization. Recent studies on learning-based sound source localization have mainly explored the problem from a localization perspective.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Arda Senocak , Hyeonggon Ryu , Junsik Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh , Hanspeter Pfister , Joon Son Chung

Estimation of the location of sound sources is usually done using microphone arrays. Such settings provide an environment where we know the difference between the received signals among different microphones in the terms of phase or…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Helena Peic Tukuljac , Herve Lissek , Pierre Vandergheynst

Universal sound separation aims to extract clean audio tracks corresponding to distinct events from mixed audio, which is critical for artificial auditory perception. However, current methods heavily rely on artificially mixed audio for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Xize Cheng , Slytherin Wang , Zehan Wang , Rongjie Huang , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

Typical methods for binaural source separation consider only the direct sound as the target signal in a mixture. However, in most scenarios, this assumption limits the source separation performance. It is well known that the early…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Luca Remaggi , Philip J. B. Jackson , Wenwu Wang

This paper presents a novel approach to sound source separation that leverages spatial information obtained during the recording setup. Our method trains a spatial mixing filter using solo passages to capture information about the room…

Supervised deep learning approaches to underdetermined audio source separation achieve state-of-the-art performance but require a dataset of mixtures along with their corresponding isolated source signals. Such datasets can be extremely…

Multiple moving sound source localization in real-world scenarios remains a challenging issue due to interaction between sources, time-varying trajectories, distorted spatial cues, etc. In this work, we propose to use deep learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Bing Yang , Hong Liu , Xiaofei Li

In this thesis, we propose an artificial auditory system that gives a robot the ability to locate and track sounds, as well as to separate simultaneous sound sources and recognising simultaneous speech. We demonstrate that it is possible to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Jean-Marc Valin

This paper addresses the problem of localizing audio sources using binaural measurements. We propose a supervised formulation that simultaneously localizes multiple sources at different locations. The approach is intrinsically efficient…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Antoine Deleforge , Radu Horaud , Yoav Schechner , Laurent Girin

The ability to localize and track acoustic events is a fundamental prerequisite for equipping machines with the ability to be aware of and engage with humans in their surrounding environment. However, in realistic scenarios, audio signals…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Christine Evers , Heinrich Loellmann , Heinrich Mellmann , Alexander Schmidt , Hendrik Barfuss , Patrick Naylor , Walter Kellermann

In this paper, we propose a two-step training procedure for source separation via a deep neural network. In the first step we learn a transform (and it's inverse) to a latent space where masking-based separation performance using oracles is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Efthymios Tzinis , Shrikant Venkataramani , Zhepei Wang , Cem Subakan , Paris Smaragdis

This paper presents a two-step approach for narrowband source localization within reverberant rooms. The first step involves dereverberation by modeling the homogeneous component of the sound field by an equivalent decomposition of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Wei-Ting Lai , Lachlan Birnie , Thushara Abhayapala , Amy Bastine , Shaoheng Xu , Prasanga Samarasinghe

Deep clustering is the first method to handle general audio separation scenarios with multiple sources of the same type and an arbitrary number of sources, performing impressively in speaker-independent speech separation tasks. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-30 Yi Luo , Zhuo Chen , John R. Hershey , Jonathan Le Roux , Nima Mesgarani

Speech separation is a fundamental task in audio processing, typically addressed with fully supervised systems trained on paired mixtures. While effective, such systems typically rely on synthetic data pipelines, which may not reflect…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Runwu Shi , Kai Li , Chang Li , Jiang Wang , Sihan Tan , Kazuhiro Nakadai

The objective of the sound source localization task is to enable machines to detect the location of sound-making objects within a visual scene. While the audio modality provides spatial cues to locate the sound source, existing approaches…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sung Jin Um , Dongjin Kim , Jung Uk Kim