A review on auditory perception for unmanned aerial vehicles

J Martinez-Carranza, C Rascon - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Although a significant amount of work has been carried out for visual perception in the
context of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), not so much has been done regarding auditory …

Drone audition: Sound source localization using on-board microphones

W Manamperi, TD Abhayapala, J Zhang… - … on Audio, Speech …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a sound source localization method using an irregular microphone
array embedded in a drone. Sound source localization is an integral function of drone …

Deep learning models for single-channel speech enhancement on drones

D Mukhutdinov, A Alex, A Cavallaro, L Wang - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speech enhancement for drone audition is made challenging by the strong ego-noise from
the rotating motors and propellers, which leads to extremely low signal-to-noise ratios (eg …

Acoustic sensing from a multi-rotor drone

L Wang, A Cavallaro - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a time-frequency processing method that localizes and enhances a target
sound by exploiting spectral and spatial characteristics of the ego-noise captured by a …

Deep learning assisted time-frequency processing for speech enhancement on drones

L Wang, A Cavallaro - IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article fills the gap between the growing interest in signal processing based on Deep
Neural Networks (DNN) and the new application of enhancing speech captured by …

A blind source separation framework for ego-noise reduction on multi-rotor drones

L Wang, A Cavallaro - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Acoustic sensing from a multi-rotor drone is heavily degraded by the strong ego-noise
produced by the rotating motors and propellers. To address this problem, we propose a …

Acoustic source localization from multirotor UAVs

D Salvati, C Drioli, G Ferrin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we address the problem of acoustic source localization using a microphone
array mounted on multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Conventional localization …

Deep-learning-assisted sound source localization from a flying drone

L Wang, A Cavallaro - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sound source localization from a flying drone is a challenging task due to the strong ego-
noise from rotating motors and propellers as well as the movement of the drone and the …

Multiple sound source position estimation by drone audition based on data association between sound source localization and identification

M Wakabayashi, HG Okuno… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drone audition, or auditory processing for drones equipped with a microphone array, is
expected to compensate for problems affecting drones' visual processing, in particular …

Sound source distance estimation using deep learning: An image classification approach

M Yiwere, EJ Rhee - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a sound source distance estimation (SSDE) method using a
convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN). We approach the sound source distance …