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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

Sound source localization aims to seek the direction of arrival (DOA) of all sound sources from the observed multi-channel audio. For the practical problem of unknown number of sources, existing localization algorithms attempt to predict a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Yanjie Fu , Meng Ge , Haoran Yin , Xinyuan Qian , Longbiao Wang , Gaoyan Zhang , Jianwu Dang

The localization of multiple signal sources using sensor arrays has been a long-standing research challenge. While numerous solutions have been developed, signal space methods like MUSIC and ESPRIT have gained widespread popularity. As…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Mehdi Haghshenas , Aamir Mahmood , Mikael Gidlund

We present a system for localizing sound sources in a room with several ad-hoc microphone arrays. Each circular array performs direction of arrival (DOA) estimation independently using commercial software. The DOAs are fed to a fusion…

Conventional sound source localization methods are mostly based on a single microphone array that consists of multiple microphones. They are usually formulated as the estimation of the direction of arrival problem. In this paper, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Yijun Gong , Shupei Liu , Xiao-Lei Zhang

Mobile robots in real-life settings would benefit from being able to localize sound sources. Such a capability can nicely complement vision to help localize a person or an interesting event in the environment, and also to provide enhanced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Jean-Marc Valin , François Michaud , Brahim Hadjou , Jean Rouat

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

Audio-visual sound source localization task aims to spatially localize sound-making objects within visual scenes by integrating visual and audio cues. However, existing methods struggle with accurately localizing sound-making objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Sung Jin Um , Dongjin Kim , Sangmin Lee , Jung Uk Kim

Acoustic reflector localization is an important issue in audio signal processing, with direct applications in spatial audio, scene reconstruction, and source separation. Several methods have recently been proposed to estimate the 3D…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Luca Remaggi , Philip J. B. Jackson , Philip Coleman , Wenwu Wang

Source localization is the process of estimating the location of signal sources based on the signals received at different antennas of an antenna array. It has diverse applications, ranging from radar systems and underwater acoustics to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Parisa Ramezani , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

This paper presents a Bayesian estimation method for the passive localization of an acoustic source in shallow water. Our probabilistic focalization approach estimates the time-varying source location by associating direction of arrival…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Florian Meyer , Kay L. Gemba

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

Angle-of-Arrival estimation technology, with its potential advantages, emerges as an intriguing choice for indoor localization. Notably, it holds the promise of reducing installation costs. In contrast to ToF/TDoA based systems, AoA-based…

Sound sources localization using multichannel signal processing has been a subject of active research for decades. In recent years, the use of deep learning in audio signal processing has allowed to drastically improve performances for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Hadrien Pujol , Éric Bavu , Alexandre Garcia

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

We study the problem of localizing multiple sources of forced oscillations (FOs) and estimating their characteristics, such as frequency, phase, and amplitude, using noisy PMU measurements. For each source location, we model the input…

Applications · Statistics 2022-01-21 Rajasekhar Anguluri , Nima Taghipourbazargani , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

Indoor localization is a long-standing challenge in mobile computing, with significant implications for enabling location-aware and intelligent applications within smart environments such as homes, offices, and retail spaces. As AI…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Amod K. Agrawal

In this paper, we consider the problem of acoustic source localization by acoustic sensor networks (ASNs) using a promising, learning-based technique that adapts to the acoustic environment. In particular, we look at the scenario when a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-09 Gabriel F Miller , Andreas Brendel , Walter Kellermann , Sharon Gannot

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

Sound event detection and sound event localization requires different features from audio input signals. While sound event detection mainly relies on time-frequency patterns to distinguish different event classes, sound event localization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 T. N. T. Nguyen , D. L. Jones , R. Ranjan , S. Jayabalan , W. S. Gan