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Direction-of-arrival estimation of multiple speakers in a room is an important task for a wide range of applications. In particular, challenging environments with moving speakers, reverberation and noise, lead to significant performance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Daniel A. Mitchell , Boaz Rafaely , Anurag Kumar , Vladimir Tourbabin

We propose a direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation method for Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). Direct estimation of DOA using a deep neural network (DNN), i.e. completely-datadriven approach, achieves high accuracy. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Masahiro Yasuda , Yuma Koizumi , Shoichiro Saito , Hisashi Uematsu , Keisuke Imoto

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

We present a novel learning-based approach to estimate the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of a sound source using a convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN) trained via regression on synthetic data and Cartesian labels. We also describe an…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Zhenyu Tang , John D. Kanu , Kevin Hogan , Dinesh Manocha

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

A convolution neural network (CNN) based classification method for broadband DOA estimation is proposed, where the phase component of the short-time Fourier transform coefficients of the received microphone signals are directly fed into the…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Soumitro Chakrabarty , Emanuël. A. P. Habets

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

Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation is a fundamental task in array processing. A popular family of DoA estimation algorithms are subspace methods, which operate by dividing the measurements into distinct signal and noise subspaces.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Dor H. Shmuel , Julian P. Merkofer , Guy Revach , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Nir Shlezinger

Deep learning has the potential to enhance speech signals and increase their intelligibility for users of hearing aids. Deep models suited for real-world application should feature a low computational complexity and low processing delay of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Nils L. Westhausen , Hendrik Kayser , Theresa Jansen , Bernd T. Meyer

Aiming at estimating the direction of arrival (DOA) of a desired speaker in a multi-talker environment using a microphone array, in this paper we propose a signal-informed method exploiting the availability of an external microphone…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Ulrik Kowalk , Simon Doclo , Joerg Bitzer

This paper presents a novel machine-hearing system that exploits deep neural networks (DNNs) and head movements for robust binaural localisation of multiple sources in reverberant environments. DNNs are used to learn the relationship…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-08 Ning Ma , Tobias May , Guy J. Brown

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

Many deep learning techniques are available to perform source separation and reduce background noise. However, designing an end-to-end multi-channel source separation method using deep learning and conventional acoustic signal processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Ali Aroudi , Sebastian Braun

A multi-task learning framework is proposed for optimizing a single deep neural network (DNN) for joint noise reduction (NR) and hearing loss compensation (HLC). A distinct training objective is defined for each task, and the DNN predicts…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Philippe Gonzalez , Vera Margrethe Frederiksen , Torsten Dau , Tobias May

This paper investigates the joint localization, detection, and tracking of sound events using a convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN). We use a CRNN previously proposed for the localization and detection of stationary sources, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Sharath Adavanne , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

This work addresses the problem of multichannel source separation combining two powerful approaches, multichannel spectral factorization with recent monophonic deep-learning (DL) based spectrum inference. Individual source spectra at…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-04 Antonio J. Muñoz-Montoro , Julio J. Carabias-Orti , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos

To achieve human-like behaviour during speech interactions, it is necessary for a humanoid robot to estimate the location of a human talker. Here, we present a method to optimize the parameters used for the direction of arrival (DOA)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Pranav Barot , Katja Mombaur , Ewen MacDonald

Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation of multiple signals is pivotal in sensor array signal processing. A popular multi-signal DoA estimation method is the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm, which enables high-performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Julian P. Merkofer , Guy Revach , Nir Shlezinger , Tirza Routtenberg , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

In this paper, we present a new model for Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation of sound sources based on an Icosahedral Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) applied over SRP-PHAT power maps computed from the signals received by a microphone…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 David Diaz-Guerra , Antonio Miguel , Jose R. Beltran

This paper proposes sound event localization and detection methods from multichannel recording. The proposed system is based on two Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (CRNNs) to perform sound event detection (SED) and time difference…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Francois Grondin , James Glass , Iwona Sobieraj , Mark D. Plumbley