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Neural-network (NN)-based methods show high performance in sound event localization and detection (SELD). Conventional NN-based methods use two branches for a sound event detection (SED) target and a direction-of-arrival (DOA) target. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Kazuki Shimada , Yuichiro Koyama , Naoya Takahashi , Shusuke Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

This paper proposes a new method that fuses acoustic measurements in the reverberation field and low-accuracy inertial measurement unit (IMU) motion reports for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Different from existing studies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Wenhao Qiu , Gang Wang , Wenjing Zhang

In this paper, we propose an effective sound event detection (SED) method based on the audio spectrogram transformer (AST) model, pretrained on the large-scale AudioSet for audio tagging (AT) task, termed AST-SED. Pretrained AST models have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Kang Li , Yan Song , Li-Rong Dai , Ian McLoughlin , Xin Fang , Lin Liu

Sound event localization aims at estimating the positions of sound sources in the environment with respect to an acoustic receiver (e.g. a microphone array). Recent advances in this domain most prominently focused on utilizing deep…

In recent years, exploring effective sound separation (SSep) techniques to improve overlapping sound event detection (SED) attracts more and more attention. Creating accurate separation signals to avoid the catastrophic error accumulation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Yunhao Liang , Yanhua Long , Yijie Li , Jiaen Liang

Wearable audio devices with active noise control (ANC) enhance listening comfort but often at the expense of situational awareness. However, this auditory isolation may mask crucial environmental cues, posing significant safety risks. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Jun-Wei Yeow , Ee-Leng Tan , Santi Peksi , Zhen-Ting Ong , Woon-Seng Gan

We present a novel, reflection-aware method for 3D sound localization in indoor environments. Unlike prior approaches, which are mainly based on continuous sound signals from a stationary source, our formulation is designed to localize the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Inkyu An , Myungbae Son , Dinesh Manocha , Sung-eui Yoon

Polyphonic sound event detection and direction-of-arrival estimation require different input features from audio signals. While sound event detection mainly relies on time-frequency patterns, direction-of-arrival estimation relies on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Douglas L. Jones , Woon-Seng Gan

Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) and Sound Event Detection (SED) are two separate tasks in the field of computational sound scene analysis. In this work, we present a new dataset with both sound scene and sound event labels and use this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Helen L. Bear , Ines Nolasco , Emmanouil Benetos

The performances of Sound Event Detection (SED) systems are greatly limited by the difficulty in generating large strongly labeled dataset. In this work, we used two main approaches to overcome the lack of strongly labeled data. First, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Hyeonuk Nam , Byeong-Yun Ko , Gyeong-Tae Lee , Seong-Hu Kim , Won-Ho Jung , Sang-Min Choi , Yong-Hwa Park

Sound source localization (SSL) is a critical technology for determining the position of sound sources in complex environments. However, existing methods face challenges such as high computational costs and precise calibration requirements,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yiyuan Yang , Shitong Xu , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Data augmentation methods have shown great importance in diverse supervised learning problems where labeled data is scarce or costly to obtain. For sound event localization and detection (SELD) tasks several augmentation methods have been…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-20 Ricardo Falcon-Perez , Kazuki Shimada , Yuichiro Koyama , Shusuke Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

While many deep learning methods on other domains have been applied to sound event detection (SED), differences between original domains of the methods and SED have not been appropriately considered so far. As SED uses audio data with two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-24 Hyeonuk Nam , Seong-Hu Kim , Deokki Min , Byeong-Yun Ko , Seung-Deok Choi , Yong-Hwa Park

Identification and localization of sounds are both integral parts of computational auditory scene analysis. Although each can be solved separately, the goal of forming coherent auditory objects and achieving a comprehensive spatial scene…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Ivo Trowitzsch , Christopher Schymura , Dorothea Kolossa , Klaus Obermayer

Humanoid robots require simultaneous sound event type and direction estimation for situational awareness, but conventional two-channel input struggles with elevation estimation and front-back confusion. This paper proposes a binaural sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Gyeong-Tae Lee

Sound event detection (SED) aims to detect when and recognize what sound events happen in an audio clip. Many supervised SED algorithms rely on strongly labelled data which contains the onset and offset annotations of sound events. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Qiuqiang Kong , Yong Xu , Iwona Sobieraj , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

This paper proposes to use low-level spatial features extracted from multichannel audio for sound event detection. We extend the convolutional recurrent neural network to handle more than one type of these multichannel features by learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Sharath Adavanne , Pasi Pertilä , Tuomas Virtanen

Due to the growing demand for improving surveillance capabilities in smart cities, systems need to be developed to provide better monitoring capabilities to competent authorities, agencies responsible for strategic resource management, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Tito Spadini , Dimitri Leandro de Oliveira Silva , Ricardo Suyama

We propose a spatial diffuseness feature for deep neural network (DNN)-based automatic speech recognition to improve recognition accuracy in reverberant and noisy environments. The feature is computed in real-time from multiple microphone…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Andreas Schwarz , Christian Huemmer , Roland Maas , Walter Kellermann

We present a novel sound localization algorithm for a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) sound source in indoor environments. Our approach exploits the diffraction properties of sound waves as they bend around a barrier or an obstacle in the scene.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Inkyu An , Doheon Lee , Jung-woo Choi , Dinesh Manocha , Sung-eui Yoon