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General perception systems such as Perceivers can process arbitrary modalities in any combination and are able to handle up to a few hundred thousand inputs. They achieve this generality by using exclusively global attention operations.…

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) is an important task in machine listening. Major advancements rely on simulated data with sound events in specific rooms and strong spatio-temporal labels. SELD data is simulated by convolving…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Iran R. Roman , Christopher Ick , Sivan Ding , Adrian S. Roman , Brian McFee , Juan P. Bello

Multi-channel speech enhancement utilizes spatial information from multiple microphones to extract the target speech. However, most existing methods do not explicitly model spatial cues, instead relying on implicit learning from…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Jiahui Pan , Shulin He , Hui Zhang , Xueliang Zhang

This article presents a multiple sound source localization and tracking system, fed by the Eigenmike array. The First Order Ambisonics (FOA) format is used to build a pseudointensity-based spherical histogram, from which the source position…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Srđan Kitić , Alexandre Guérin

We present SPEAR, a continuous receiver-to-receiver acoustic neural warping field for spatial acoustic effects prediction in an acoustic 3D space with a single stationary audio source. Unlike traditional source-to-receiver modelling methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yuhang He , Shitong Xu , Jia-Xing Zhong , Sangyun Shin , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Hybrid acoustic-RF systems offer excellent ranging accuracy, yet they typically come at a power consumption that is too high to meet the energy constraints of mobile IoT nodes. We combine pulse compression and synchronized wake-ups to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Bert Cox , Liesbet Van der Perre , Stijn Wielandt , Geoffrey Ottoy , Lieven De Strycker

Sound plays a major role in human perception. Along with vision, it provides essential information for understanding our surroundings. Despite advances in neural implicit representations, learning acoustics that align with visual scenes…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Amandine Brunetto , Sascha Hornauer , Fabien Moutarde

Personalized binaural audio reproduction is the basis of realistic spatial localization, sound externalization, and immersive listening, directly shaping user experience and listening effort. This survey reviews recent advances in deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Xikun Lu , Yunda Chen , Zehua Chen , Jie Wang , Mingxing Liu , Hongmei Hu , Chengshi Zheng , Stefan Bleeck , Jinqiu Sang

Realistic sound simulation plays a critical role in many applications. A key element in sound simulation is the room impulse response (RIR), which characterizes how sound propagates from a source to a listener within a given space. Recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Chen Si , Qianyi Wu , Chaitanya Amballa , Romit Roy Choudhury

Headphone-based spatial audio uses head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to simulate real-world acoustic environments. HRTFs are unique to everyone, due to personal morphology, shaping how sound waves interact with the body before…

In the rapidly evolving fields of virtual and augmented reality, accurate spatial audio capture and reproduction are essential. For these applications, Ambisonics has emerged as a standard format. However, existing methods for encoding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-27 Yhonatan Gayer , Vladimir Tourbabin , Zamir Ben-Hur , Jacob Donley , Boaz Rafaely

Spherical microphone arrays (SMAs) are widely used for sound field analysis, and sparse recovery (SR) techniques can significantly enhance their spatial resolution by modeling the sound field as a sparse superposition of dominant plane…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Shunxi Xu , Craig T. Jin

Spatial audio methods are gaining a growing interest due to the spread of immersive audio experiences and applications, such as virtual and augmented reality. For these purposes, 3D audio signals are often acquired through arrays of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Eleonora Grassucci , Gioia Mancini , Christian Brignone , Aurelio Uncini , Danilo Comminiello

Knowing the room geometry may be very beneficial for many audio applications, including sound reproduction, acoustic scene analysis, and sound source localization. Room geometry inference (RGI) deals with the problem of reflector…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Cagdas Tuna , Altan Akat , H. Nazim Bicer , Andreas Walther , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Room geometry inference (RGI) aims at estimating room shapes from measured room impulse responses (RIRs) and has received lots of attention for its importance in environment-aware audio rendering and virtual acoustic representation of a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Inmo Yeon , Jung-Woo Choi

We address the problem of estimating room impulse responses (RIRs) in noisy, uncontrolled environments where non-stationary sounds such as speech or footsteps corrupt conventional deconvolution. We propose AnyRIR, a non-intrusive method…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Kyung Yun Lee , Nils Meyer-Kahlen , Karolina Prawda , Vesa Välimäki , Sebastian J. Schlecht

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

This paper proposes an audio fingerprinting model with holographic reduced representation (HRR). The proposed method reduces the number of stored fingerprints, whereas conventional neural audio fingerprinting requires many fingerprints for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Yusuke Fujita , Tatsuya Komatsu

Ambisonics Signal Matching (ASM) is a recently proposed signal-independent approach to encoding Ambisonic signal from wearable microphone arrays, enabling efficient and standardized spatial sound reproduction. However, reproduction accuracy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Yhonatan Gayer , Vladimir Tourbabin , Zamir Ben-Hur , David Alon , Boaz Rafaely

The room impulse response (RIR) encodes, among others, information about the distance of an acoustic source from the sensors. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to be able to extract that information for acoustic distance…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Tobias Gburrek , Adrian Meise , Joerg Schmalenstroeer , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach