Sound Source Localization for Human-Robot Interaction in Outdoor Environments
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| author | Liu, Victor Du, Timothy Sehn, Jordy Collier, Jack Grondin, François |
| author_facet | Liu, Victor Du, Timothy Sehn, Jordy Collier, Jack Grondin, François |
| contents | This paper presents a sound source localization strategy that relies on a microphone array embedded in an unmanned ground vehicle and an asynchronous close-talking microphone near the operator. A signal coarse alignment strategy is combined with a time-domain acoustic echo cancellation algorithm to estimate a time-frequency ideal ratio mask to isolate the target speech from interferences and environmental noise. This allows selective sound source localization, and provides the robot with the direction of arrival of sound from the active operator, which enables rich interaction in noisy scenarios. Results demonstrate an average angle error of 4 degrees and an accuracy within 5 degrees of 95\% at a signal-to-noise ratio of 1dB, which is significantly superior to the state-of-the-art localization methods. |
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| spellingShingle | Sound Source Localization for Human-Robot Interaction in Outdoor Environments Liu, Victor Du, Timothy Sehn, Jordy Collier, Jack Grondin, François Robotics Human-Computer Interaction Audio and Speech Processing This paper presents a sound source localization strategy that relies on a microphone array embedded in an unmanned ground vehicle and an asynchronous close-talking microphone near the operator. A signal coarse alignment strategy is combined with a time-domain acoustic echo cancellation algorithm to estimate a time-frequency ideal ratio mask to isolate the target speech from interferences and environmental noise. This allows selective sound source localization, and provides the robot with the direction of arrival of sound from the active operator, which enables rich interaction in noisy scenarios. Results demonstrate an average angle error of 4 degrees and an accuracy within 5 degrees of 95\% at a signal-to-noise ratio of 1dB, which is significantly superior to the state-of-the-art localization methods. |
| title | Sound Source Localization for Human-Robot Interaction in Outdoor Environments |
| topic | Robotics Human-Computer Interaction Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21431 |