arXiv AI August 17, 2026 By Vadym Vilhurin, Volodymyr Sydorskyi, Andrii Shevtsov

Acoustic UAV Detection in Battlefield Scenarios: Handling Noise, Domain Shift, and Weak Labels

arXiv:2608. 14287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Passive acoustic sensing offers a critical, cost-efficient, and, crucially, passive alternative for detecting small unmanned aerial vehicles.

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Acoustic Imaging for UAV Detection: Dense Beamformed Energy Maps and U-Net SELD

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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 2

Classification and detection of multiple UAVs using rational Gaussian wavelet neural networks

arXiv:2605. 26310v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The detection of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is important for the protection of civilian and military infrastructure.

By Ungv\'ari Gerg\H{o}, Ferenc Braun, Attila \'Amon, P\'eter Kackst\"adter, J\'anos Volk, P\'eter Kov\'acs, Tam\'as D\'ozsa

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arXiv AI

Jul 29

Device Invariance using Domain Adaptation on Acoustic Scene Classification

arXiv:2607. 25887v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper explores the effectiveness of domain adaptation techniques when using convolutional neural network (CNN)-based and transformer-based feature representations for acoustic scene classification.

By Abhishek dileep, Shubham Sharma, Padmanabhan Rajan

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arXiv AI

Jun 11

Lung-SRAD: Spectral-Aware Regularized Audio DASS with Dual-Axis Patch-Mix Contrastive Learning for Respiratory Sound Classification

arXiv:2606. 11922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent respiratory sound classification (RSC) studies largely rely on CLS-token driven self-attention architectures such as the Audio Spectrogram Transformer (AST).

By Hemansh Shridhar, Miika Toikkanen, June-Woo Kim

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arXiv Machine Learning

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Physics-Informed Learning for Robust Acoustic Localization with Calibrated Uncertainty

arXiv:2608. 08911v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) offer an opportunity to obtain ecological spatial point-process data at unprecedented scale.

By Jennifer N. Kampe, Changwoo J. Lee, Xin Shen, Ari Lehti\"o, Sandro von Brandenburg, Ossi Nokelainen, David B. Dunson, Otso Ovaskainen

arXiv AI

Jul 21

SONAR: Spectral-Contrastive Audio Residuals for Generalizable Deepfake Detection

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

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