The LOCATA challenge data corpus for acoustic source localization and tracking

HW Löllmann, C Evers, A Schmidt… - 2018 IEEE 10th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Algorithms for acoustic source localization and tracking are essential for a wide range of
applications such as personal assistants, smart homes, tele-conferencing systems, hearing …

Catch me if you hear me: Audio-visual navigation in complex unmapped environments with moving sounds

A Younes, D Honerkamp… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Audio-visual navigation combines sight and hearing to navigate to a sound-emitting source
in an unmapped environment. While recent approaches have demonstrated the benefits of …

Data-driven multi-microphone speaker localization on manifolds

B Laufer-Goldshtein, R Talmon… - … and Trends® in Signal …, 2020 - nowpublishers.com
Speech enhancement is a core problem in audio signal processing with commercial
applications in devices as diverse as mobile phones, conference call systems, smart …

Direction of arrival estimation for reverberant speech based on enhanced decomposition of the direct sound

L Madmoni, B Rafaely - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation for speech sources is an important task in audio signal
processing. This task becomes a challenge in reverberant environments, which are typical to …

Acoustic simultaneous localization and map** (a-SLAM) of a moving microphone array and its surrounding speakers

C Evers, AH Moore, PA Naylor - 2016 IEEE International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Acoustic scene map** creates a representation of positions of audio sources such as
talkers within the surrounding environment of a microphone array. By allowing the array to …

Online localization and tracking of multiple moving speakers in reverberant environments

X Li, Y Ban, L Girin, X Alameda-Pineda… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the problem of online localization and tracking of multiple moving speakers in
reverberant environments. This paper has the following contributions. We use the direct-path …

Tracking time differences of arrivals of multiple sound sources in the presence of clutter and missed detections

P Gruden, EM Nosal, E Oleson - The Journal of the Acoustical Society …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Acoustic line transect surveys are often used in combination with visual methods to estimate
the abundance of marine mammal populations. These surveys typically use towed linear …

A hybrid approach for speaker tracking based on TDOA and data-driven models

B Laufer-Goldshtein, R Talmon… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of speaker tracking in noisy and reverberant enclosures is addressed in this
paper. We present a hybrid algorithm, combining traditional tracking schemes with a new …

Blind separation for multiple moving sources with labeled random finite sets

J Ong, BT Vo, S Nordholm - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel solution for separating an unknown and time-varying number
of moving acoustic sources in a blind setting using multiple microphone arrays. A standard …

Acoustic self-awareness of autonomous systems in a world of sounds

A Schmidt, HW Löllmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous systems (ASs) operating in real-world environments are exposed to a plurality
and diversity of sounds that carry a wealth of information for perception in cognitive dynamic …