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Localizing near-field sources considering practical arrays is a recent challenging topic for next generation wireless communication systems. Practical antenna array apertures with closely spaced elements exhibit direction-dependent mutual…

Sound event localization frameworks based on deep neural networks have shown increased robustness with respect to reverberation and noise in comparison to classical parametric approaches. In particular, recurrent architectures that…

Developing algorithms for sound classification, detection, and localization requires large amounts of flexible and realistic audio data, especially when leveraging modern machine learning and beamforming techniques. However, most existing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Luca Barbisan , Marco Levorato , Fabrizio Riente

Sonar-based indoor mapping systems have been widely employed in robotics for several decades. While such systems are still the mainstream in underwater and pipe inspection settings, the vulnerability to noise reduced, over time, their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Usama Saqib , Letizia Marchegiani , Jesper Rindom Jensen

Time-based indoor positioning techniques rely on multiple access points (APs) and measurements between the user equipment (UE) and the APs. In dense indoor environments, occlusion-induced non-line-of-sight (NLoS) propagation introduces…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Neetu R. R , Shrihari Vasudevan , Ranjani H. G

This paper presents SSLIDE, Sound Source Localization for Indoors using DEep learning, which applies deep neural networks (DNNs) with encoder-decoder structure to localize sound sources with random positions in a continuous space. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Yifan Wu , Roshan Ayyalasomayajula , Michael J. Bianco , Dinesh Bharadia , Peter Gerstoft

Audio-visual source localization is a challenging task that aims to predict the location of visual sound sources in a video. Since collecting ground-truth annotations of sounding objects can be costly, a plethora of weakly-supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Shentong Mo , Pedro Morgado

Optical fibers have long been employed as sensors in a wide range of commercial systems. Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) extends this concept by enabling the detection and localization of acoustic sources along the fiber, using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Knut H. Grythe , Jan Erik Håkegård

Localization is a key component of the wireless ecosystem. Machine learning (ML)-based localization using channel state information (CSI) is one of the most popular methods for achieving high-accuracy localization with low cost. However, to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Yuning Zhang , Lei Chu , Omer Gokalp Serbetci , Jorge Gomez-Ponce , Andreas F. Molisch

Acoustic metamaterials provide new opportunities for compact and efficient wavefront manipulation, extending beyond conventional bulky and power-intensive phased-arrays. In this work, we exploit the spatial encoding properties of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Thomas Macleod , Sebastian Oberst , David A. Powell , Yan Kei Chiang

Acoustic scene perception involves describing the type of sounds, their timing, their direction and distance, as well as their loudness and reverberation. While audio language models excel in sound recognition, single-channel input…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Xilin Jiang , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun

Recent developments in Phased Array direct positioning methods have improved accuracy for passively geo-locating multiple radio frequency-emitting signal sources. However, the number of geo-localisable signal sources is still limited by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-13 Joon Wayn Cheong , Andrew G Dempster

The precise arrangement of microscopic objects is critical to the development of functional materials and ornately patterned surfaces. Here, we present an acoustics-based method for the rapid arrangement of microscopic particles into…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-10 Crystal E. Owens , C. Wyatt Shields , Daniela F. Cruz , Patrick Charbonneau , Gabriel P. Lopez

Audio-visual sound source localization (AV-SSL) estimates the position of sound sources by fusing auditory and visual cues. Current AV-SSL methodologies typically require spatially-paired audio-visual data and cannot selectively localize…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yu Chen , Hongxu Zhu , Jiadong Wang , Kainan Chen , Xinyuan Qian

This paper proposes a fully automated method for recovering the location of a source and medium parameters in shallow waters. The scenario involves an unknown source emitting low-frequency sound waves in a shallow water environment, and a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Angèle Niclas , Josselin Garnier

The problem of mixed signals occurs in many different contexts; one of the most familiar being acoustics. The forward problem in acoustics consists of finding the sound pressure levels at various detectors resulting from sound signals…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Kevin H. Knuth

Sound source localization (SSL) adds a spatial dimension to auditory perception, allowing a system to pinpoint the origin of speech, machinery noise, warning tones, or other acoustic events, capabilities that facilitate robot navigation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Reza Jalayer , Masoud Jalayer , Amirali Baniasadi

Many sound source localization (SSL) algorithms based on circular microphone array (CMA), including uniform circular array (UCA) and uniform concentric circular array (UCCA), have been well developed and verified via computer simulations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Zhe Zhang , Ming Wu , Xinyu Han , Jun Yang

Map-based LiDAR localization, while widely used in autonomous systems, faces significant challenges in degraded environments due to lacking distinct geometric features. This paper introduces SuperLoc, a robust LiDAR localization package…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Shibo Zhao , Honghao Zhu , Yuanjun Gao , Beomsoo Kim , Yuheng Qiu , Aaron M. Johnson , Sebastian Scherer

In a sensor network with remote sensor devices, it is important to have a method that can accurately localize a sound event with a small amount of data transmitted from the sensors. In this paper, we propose a novel method for localization…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-03-01 Hong Jiang , Boyd Mathews , Paul Wilford