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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

In this paper we consider a binaural hearing aid setup, where in addition to the head-mounted microphones an external microphone is available. For this setup, we investigate the performance of several relative transfer function (RTF) vector…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Daniel Fejgin , Simon Doclo

To estimate the direction of arrival (DOA) of multiple speakers with methods that use prototype transfer functions, frequency-dependent spatial spectra (SPS) are usually constructed. To make the DOA estimation robust, SPS from different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Daniel Fejgin , Elior Hadad , Sharon Gannot , Zbyněk Koldovský , Simon Doclo

Accurate Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation in reverberant environments remains a fundamental challenge for spatial audio applications. While deep learning methods have shown strong performance in such conditions, they typically lack a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Bar Shaybet , Vladimir Tourbabin , Boaz Rafaely

As we interact with the world, for example when we communicate with our colleagues in a large open space or meeting room, we continuously analyse the surrounding environment and, in particular, localise and recognise acoustic events. While…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Pawel Swietojanski , Ondrej Miksik

We introduce a novel all neural model for low-latency directional speech extraction. The model uses direction of arrival (DOA) embeddings from a predefined spatial grid, which are transformed and fused into a recurrent neural network based…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ashutosh Pandey , Sanha Lee , Juan Azcarreta , Daniel Wong , Buye Xu

Sound source localization is crucial in acoustic sensing and monitoring-related applications. In this paper, we do a comprehensive analysis of improvement in sound source localization by combining the direction of arrivals (DOAs) with their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Ruchi Pandey , Shreyas Jaiswal , Huy Phan , Santosh Nannuru

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is a fundamental problem in array signal processing with applications spanning radar, sonar, wireless communications, and acoustic signal processing. This tutorial survey provides a comprehensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Amgad A. Salama

An approach to the estimation of the Direction of Arrival (DOA) of wide-band signals with a planar microphone array is presented. Our algorithm estimates an unambiguous DOA using a single planar array in which the microphones are placed…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Rudolf Byker , Thomas Niesler

As massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) becomes popular, direction of arrival (DOA) measurement has been made a real renaissance due to the high-resolution achieved. Thus, there is no doubt about DOA estimation using massive MIMO.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jiangzhou Wang , Baihua Shi , Feng Shu , Qi Zhang , Di Wu , Qijuan Jie , Zhihong Zhuang , Siling Feng , Yijin Zhang

The direction of arrival (DOA) estimation problem is addressed in this letter. A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided system for the DOA estimation is proposed. Unlike traditional DOA estimation systems, a low-cost system with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Peng Chen , Zihan Yang , Zhimin Chen , Ziyu Guo

This paper proposes a deep neural network for estimating the directions of arrival (DOA) of multiple sound sources. The proposed stacked convolutional and recurrent neural network (DOAnet) generates a spatial pseudo-spectrum (SPS) along…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Sharath Adavanne , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation techniques face a critical trade-off, as classical methods often lack accuracy in challenging, low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions, while modern deep learning approaches are too energy-intensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Rajat Bhattacharjya , Woohyeok Park , Arnab Sarkar , Hyunwoo Oh , Mohsen Imani , Nikil Dutt

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

We focus on coherent direction of arrival estimation of wideband sources based on spatial sparsity. This area of research is encountered in many applications such as passive radar, sonar, mining, and communication problems, in which an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Milad Javadzadeh Jirhandeh , Mohammad Hossein Kahaei

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

High data rate communication with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is of growing demand among industrial and commercial applications since the last decade. In this paper, we investigate enhancing beam forming performance based on signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Tianxiao Zhao , Chunbo Luo , Geyong Min , Jianming Zhou , Dechun Guo , Wang Miao , Yang Mi

The conventional direction of arrival (DOA) estimation methods are performed with multiple receiving channels. In this paper, a changeling DOA estimation problem is addressed in a different scenario with only one full-functional receiving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Peng Chen , Zhimin Chen , Beixiong Zheng , Xianbin Wang

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems play an essential role in direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. A large number of antennas used in a MIMO system imposes a huge complexity burden on the popular DOA estimation algorithms, such…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Md Imrul Hasan , Mohammad Saquib

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