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 …

DREGON: Dataset and methods for UAV-embedded sound source localization

M Strauss, P Mordel, V Miguet… - 2018 IEEE/RSJ …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces DREGON, a novel publicly-available dataset that aims at pushing
research in sound source localization using a microphone array embedded in an unmanned …

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 …

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 …

Microphone-array ego-noise reduction algorithms for auditory micro aerial vehicles

L Wang, A Cavallaro - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When a micro aerial vehicle (MAV) captures sounds emitted by a ground or aerial source, its
motors and propellers are much closer to the microphone (s) than the sound source, thus …

An efficient dilated convolutional neural network for UAV noise reduction at low input SNR

ZW Tan, AHT Nguyen… - 2019 Asia-Pacific Signal …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Acoustic applications on a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) have been hindered
by its low input signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Such low SNR condition poses prominent …

Audio-visual sensing from a quadcopter: dataset and baselines for source localization and sound enhancement

L Wang, R Sanchez-Matilla… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an audio-visual dataset recorded outdoors from a quadcopter and discuss
baseline results for multiple applications. The dataset includes a scenario for source …