P2-06: Neural Array-Generic Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Exploiting Array Transfer Functions

Heikkinen, Mikko*, Drosos, Konstantinos, Politis, Archontis, Virtanen, Tuomas

Subjects (starting with primary): Source localization and tracking ; Microphone array processing

Presented in Poster Session 2

Abstract:

Direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation is a key component of multichannel audio processing, yet many deep learning approaches remain tied to the microphone arrays used during training and generalize poorly to unseen devices. This paper proposes an array-generic neural DoA estimation framework using measured or simulated complex directional array trans- fer functions (ATFs) matched to real-world multi-microphone devices. The method processes multichannel spectrograms and ATF metadata with separate convolutional encoders, fuses the resulting representations through cross-attention, and predicts source directions using a multi-source Carte- sian vector output formulation. Experiments on simulated 2D and 3D localization tasks under reverberation and diffuse babble noise show that the proposed approach generalizes to previously unseen arrays, including mobile-phone-like con- figurations, without major performance degradation, while remaining competitive with conventional and learning-based baselines.

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