arXiv:2508. 00307v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce a U-net model for 360{\deg} acoustic source localization formulated as a spherical semantic segmentation task.
By Belman Jahir Rodriguez, Sergio F. Chevtchenko, Marcelo Herrera Martinez, Yeshwanth Bethi, Saeed Afshar
arXiv:2607. 04471v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Linear spatial filters (beamformers) enable robust, generalizable and interpretable speech enhancement with performance guarantees under ideal parameterization.
By Jakob Kienegger, Tal Peer, Sina Khanagha, Timo Gerkmann
arXiv:2606. 31552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Room-acoustic simulations are widely used to augment training data for deep-learning-based speech enhancement.
By Georg G\"otz, Alessia Milo, Steinar Gu{\dh}j\'onsson, Daniel Gert Nielsen, Jesper Pedersen, Finnur Pind
arXiv:2606. 18664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable sound source localization is fundamental to robot audition, enabling autonomous robots to perceive spatial cues and operate effectively in dynamic environments.
By Yizhuo Yang, Junqiao Fan, Shenghai Yuan, Lihua Xie
arXiv:2608. 11627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Relative Transfer Matrix (ReTM), recently introduced as a generalization of the relative transfer function for multiple receivers and sources, shows promising performance when applied to speech enhancement in noisy environments.
By Oshan A. B. Yalegama, Wageesha N. Manamperi
arXiv:2601. 21124v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current multimodal LLMs process audio as a mono stream, ignoring the rich spatial information essential for embodied AI.
By Artem Dementyev, Wazeer Zulfikar, Sinan Hersek, Pascal Getreuer, Anurag Kumar, Vivek Kumar
The paper presents a compact underwater acoustic classification framework that integrates multi-representation feature engineering, temporal statistical pooling, and lightweight convolutional architectures for acoustic time-frequency and cochlear representations. Experiments on the ShipsEar dataset show a two-layer CNN achieving a macro F1 of 0.9918 and an RBF-SVM reaching 0.9883, but recording provenance issues limit verification of generalisation. When evaluated on the DeepShip dataset with recording-level partitioning, a 157K-parameter CNN attains a macro F1 of 0.7226, while a larger ResNet18 does not improve validation performance, underscoring the need for representation-aware design and rigorous evaluation for deployable systems.
By Abishek Soti, Thura Pyae Sone, Naqib Ibnul, Htoo Htet Aung, Henry Zhong, Gregory Cohen, Ying Xu
The paper introduces a simulation-based method for detecting a user's own voice in hearing aids using only a single microphone. It employs a data augmentation strategy with simulated acoustic transfer functions to train a transformer classifier, achieving over 90% accuracy on both simulated and real-world recordings. The approach reduces hardware complexity and power consumption while maintaining robust performance across varied spatial conditions.
By Mathuranathan Mayuravaani, W. Bastiaan Kleijn, Andrew Lensen, Charlotte S{\o}rensen
arXiv:2606. 02341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Underwater acoustic classification has a wide array of oceanic applications, but faces challenges due to an increasingly complex acoustic environment.
By Amirmohammad Mohammadi, Joshua Peeples, Alexandra Van Dine
The paper introduces RALCT, a lightweight Convolutional Transformer that combines randomized audio augmentations, MFCCs, and log‑mel spectrograms to extract robust features for environmental sound recognition. With only about 310,000 parameters, RALCT achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy—over 93% on UrbanSound8K, peaking at 94.56%—making it suitable for deployment on mobile devices. The authors also develop a mobile app that integrates the model to provide real‑time safety alerts for hearing‑impaired users.
By Julia Huang
arXiv:2511. 21325v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deepfake (DF) audio detectors still struggle to generalize to out of distribution inputs.
By Ido Nitzan Hidekel, Gal lifshitz, Khen Cohen, Dan Raviv
Reliable sound source localization is fundamental to robot audition, enabling autonomous robots to perceive spatial cues and operate effectively in dynamic environments. Classical methods such as Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) offer strong theoretical foundations but degrade under low signal-to-noise ratios.