Joint Direction and Proximity Classification of Overlapping Sound Events from Binaural Audio

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12033v1
• Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 08:48:46 GMT
• Title: Joint Direction and Proximity Classification of Overlapping Sound Events from Binaural Audio
• Authors: Daniel Aleksander Krause, Archontis Politis, Annamaria Mesaros
• Abstract summary: We aim to investigate several ways of performing joint proximity and direction estimation from recordings. Considering the limitations of audio, we propose two methods of splitting the sphere into angular areas in order to obtain a set of directional classes. We propose various ways of combining the proximity and direction estimation problems into a joint task providing temporal information about the onsets and offsets of appearing sources.
• Score: 7.050270263489538
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Sound source proximity and distance estimation are of great interest in many practical applications, since they provide significant information for acoustic scene analysis. As both tasks share complementary qualities, ensuring efficient interaction between these two is crucial for a complete picture of an aural environment. In this paper, we aim to investigate several ways of performing joint proximity and direction estimation from binaural recordings, both defined as coarse classification problems based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Considering the limitations of binaural audio, we propose two methods of splitting the sphere into angular areas in order to obtain a set of directional classes. For each method we study different model types to acquire information about the direction-of-arrival (DoA). Finally, we propose various ways of combining the proximity and direction estimation problems into a joint task providing temporal information about the onsets and offsets of the appearing sources. Experiments are performed for a synthetic reverberant binaural dataset consisting of up to two overlapping sound events.

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