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This paper focuses on static source localization employing different combinations of measurements, including time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA), received-signal-strength (RSS), angle-of-arrival (AOA), and time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Kang Tang , Sheng Xu , Yuqi Yang , He Kong , Yongsheng Ma

We present a novel system architecture for a distributed wireless, self-calibrating ultrasound microphone network for synchronized in-air acoustic sensing. Once deployed the embedded nodes determine their position in the environment using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Dennis Laurijssen , Rens Baeyens , Walter Daems , Jan Steckel

This paper introduces the Fast Cross-Correlation (FCC) method for Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) Estimation for pairs of microphones on a small aperture microphone array. FCC relies on low-rank decomposition and exploits symmetry in even…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 François Grondin , Marc-Antoine Maheux , Jean-Samuel Lauzon , Jonathan Vincent , François Michaud

In this paper, we focus on the localization of a passive source from time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements. TDOA values are computed with respect to pairs of fixed sensors that are required to be accurately time-synchronized. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Marguerite Delcourt , Jean-Yves Le Boudec

Channel measurements in MIMO systems hinge on precise synchronization. While methods for time and frequency synchronization are well established, maintaining real-time phase coherence remains an open requirement for many MIMO systems. Phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Carl Collmann , Ahmad Nimr , Gerhard Fettweis

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

This letter proposes a multiple parametric dictionary learning algorithm for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in presence of array gain-phase error and mutual coupling. It jointly solves both the DOA estimation and array imperfection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-25 H. Ghanbari , H. Zayyani , E. Yazdian

The calibration of modern radio interferometers is a significant challenge, specifically at low frequencies. In this perspective, we propose a novel iterative calibration algorithm, which employs the popular sparse representation framework,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-06 Martin Brossard , Mohamed Nabil El Korso , Marius Pesavento , Rémy Boyer , Pascal Larzabal

Direction-of-arrival (DoA) is a critical parameter in wireless channel estimation. With the ever-increasing requirement of high data rate and ubiquitous devices in wireless communication systems, effective wideband DoA estimation is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Xiaorui Ding , Wenbo Xu , Yue Wang

Acoustic cameras have found many applications in practice. Accurate and reliable extrinsic calibration of the microphone array and visual sensors within acoustic cameras is crucial for fusing visual and auditory measurements. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zhi Li , Jiang Wang , Xiaoyang Li , He Kong

In Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environments, terrestrial signals of opportunity (SoOP) offer an alternative for positioning, but synchronization impairments such as clock offsets, drift, and multipath limit performance.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Mustafa Furkan Beker , Abdullah Tan , Khaled Walid Elgammal , Mehmet Kemal Ozdemir

Estimating the position of a speech source based on time-differences-of-arrival (TDOAs) is often adversely affected by background noise and reverberation. A popular method to estimate the TDOA between a microphone pair involves maximizing a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Klaus Brümann , Kouei Yamaoka , Nobutaka Ono , Simon Doclo

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

Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna arrays eventuate a huge amount of circuit costs and computational complexity. To satisfy the needs of high precision and low cost in future green wireless communication, the conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-29 Feng Shu , Baihua Shi , Yiwen Chen , Jiatong Bai , Yifan Li , Tingting Liu , Zhu Han , Xiaohu You

This paper introduces SMP-PHAT, which performs direction of arrival (DoA) of sound estimation with a microphone array by merging pairs of microphones that are parallel in space. This approach reduces the number of pairwise cross-correlation…

This paper presents a complete strategy for the geometry estimation of large microphone arrays of arbitrary shape. Largeness is intended here in both number of microphones (hundreds) and size (few meters). Such arrays can be used for…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-03-28 Charles Vanwynsberghe , Pascal Challande , Jacques Marchal , Régis Marchiano , François Ollivier

Separating sources is a common challenge in applications such as speech enhancement and telecommunications, where distinguishing between overlapping sounds helps reduce interference and improve signal quality. Additionally, in multichannel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Linda Fabiani , Sebastian J. Schlecht , Isabel Haasler , Filip Elvander

Source localization is of pivotal importance in several areas such as wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoT), where the location information can be used for a variety of purposes, e.g. surveillance, monitoring, tracking, etc.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-16 Luis F. Abanto-Leon , Arie Koppelaar , Sonia Heemstra de Groot

We propose a diarization system, that estimates "who spoke when" based on spatial information, to be used as a front-end of a meeting transcription system running on the signals gathered from an acoustic sensor network (ASN). Although the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Tobias Gburrek , Joerg Schmalenstroeer , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

A simple scheme for joint direction of arrival (DOA) and array manifold estimation for a MIMO array system is proposed, where only two transmit antennas are calibrated initially. It first obtains a set of initial DOA results by employing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Wei Zhang , Wei Liu , Siliang Wu , Ju Wang