On synchronization of wireless acoustic sensor networks in the presence of time-varying sampling rate offsets and speaker changes

T Gburrek, J Schmalenstroeer… - ICASSP 2022-2022 …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A wireless acoustic sensor network records audio signals with sampling time and sampling
rate offsets between the audio streams, if the analog-digital converters (ADCs) of the …

Sensor error calibration and optimal geometry analysis of calibrators

T Jia, H Liu, P Wang, R Wang, C Gao - Signal Processing, 2024 - Elsevier
The target localization performance is not only affected by the measurement noise, but also
related with the sensor error such as sensor position error and measurement biases. If not …

An Improved Particle-Filter-Based Hybrid Optimization Algorithm for IoT Positioning in Uncertain WSNs

C Luo, X Yang, X Ge, H Liu, C He… - IEEE Internet of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the wide applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in intelligent
manufacturing, production safety, smart citie, and other fields, target location awareness has …

Distributed joint robust filter for WSNs-based target localization against non-Gaussian noises

C Luo, X Yang, B Wang, G **n… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The demands for high localization accuracy in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have led to
the development of various innovative algorithms. This article proposes a distributed joint …

A meeting transcription system for an ad-hoc acoustic sensor network

T Gburrek, C Boeddeker, T von Neumann… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We propose a system that transcribes the conversation of a typical meeting scenario that is
captured by a set of initially unsynchronized microphone arrays at unknown positions. It …

Phase error analysis for first-order linear differential microphone arrays

L Yan, W Huang, WB Kleijn… - … Workshop on Acoustic …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
First-order Linear Differential Microphone Arrays (LDMAs) are sensitive to sensor
imperfections such as phase errors. This paper analyses the impacts of both bounded and …

2d acoustic source localisation using decentralised deep neural networks on distributed microphone arrays

S Kindt, A Bohlender, N Madhu - Speech Communication; 14th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper takes a previously proposed convolutional recurrent deep neural network (DNN)
approach to direction of arrival (DoA) estimation and extends this to perform 2D localisation …

Informed vs. blind beamforming in ad-hoc acoustic sensor networks for meeting transcription

T Gburrek, J Schmalenstroeer… - … on Acoustic Signal …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a network of initially unsynchronized microphone arrays to be used to capture a
meeting which is afterwards transcribed. Beamforming is applied to exploit the spatial …

Online distributed waveform-synchronization for acoustic sensor networks with dynamic topology

A Chinaev, N Knaepper, G Enzner - … Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music …, 2023 - Springer
Acoustic sensing by multiple devices connected in a wireless acoustic sensor network
(WASN) creates new opportunities for multichannel signal processing. However, the …

Diminishing Domain Mismatch for DNN-Based Acoustic Distance Estimation via Stochastic Room Reverberation Models

T Gburrek, A Meise, J Schmalenstroeer… - … on Acoustic Signal …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The room impulse response (RIR) encodes, among others, information about the distance of
an acoustic source from the sensors. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to be …