Service-Oriented Ubiquitous Network-Driven Sound

Project Information

SOUNDS

Grant agreement ID: 956369

DOI

10.3030/956369

Project closed

EC signature date 27 August 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 30 June 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 4 136 039,28

EU contribution

€ 4 136 039,28

Coordinated by

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Belgium

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

1st international paper submission by ESR1-5

Papers related to Distributed Acoustic Array Signal Processing

1st international paper submission by ESR11-15

Papers related to Acoustic Awareness

1st international paper submission by ESR6-10

Papers related to NetworkDriven Audio Signal Processing

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

SOUNDS website

A SOUNDS public website will be created to raise awareness about the ETN to advertise positions announce seasonal schools and other ETN events and to allow Fellows to maintain a personal dissemination environment The website will contain general information about the project and provide links to the participating institutions and to the EURAXESS website Fellows and Supervisors are expected to create and maintain a personal webpage linked to the SOUNDS website with their biography project description and scientific publications

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Low-Latency Deep Analog Speech Transmission Using Joint Source Channel Coding

Author(s): Mohammad Bokaei, Jesper Jensen, Simon Doclo, Jan Østergaard
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Issue 18, 2025, Page(s) 1401-1413, ISSN 1932-4553
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstsp.2024.3521277

Towards privacy-preserving conversation analysis in everyday life: Exploring the privacy-utility trade-off

Author(s): Jule Pohlhausen, Francesco Nespoli, Jörg Bitzer
Published in: Computer Speech & Language, Issue 95, 2025, Page(s) 101823, ISSN 0885-2308
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2025.101823

The Neural-SRP Method for Universal Robust Multi-source Tracking

Author(s): Eric Grinstein, Christopher M. Hicks, Toon van Waterschoot, Mike Brookes, Patrick A. Naylor
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, 2024, Page(s) 1-10, ISSN 2644-1322
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ojsp.2023.3340057

Sampling Rate Offset Estimation and Compensation for Distributed Adaptive Node-Specific Signal Estimation in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks

Author(s): Paul Didier, Toon Van Waterschoot, Simon Doclo, Marc Moonen
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, Issue 4, 2024, Page(s) 71-79, ISSN 2644-1322
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ojsp.2023.3243851

Dual input neural networks for positional sound source localization

Author(s): Eric Grinstein, Vincent W. Neo, Patrick A. Naylor
Published in: EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, Issue 2023, 2023, ISSN 1687-4722
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s13636-023-00301-x

Performance of low-frequency sound zones with very fast room impulse response measurements

Author(s): José Cadavid, Martin Bo Møller, Christian Sejer Pedersen, Søren Bech, Toon van Waterschoot, Jan Østergaard
Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Issue 155, 2025, Page(s) 757-768, ISSN 0001-4966
Publisher: Acoustical Society of America
DOI: 10.1121/10.0024519

Identifying Principal Attributes for Evaluating Audio Quality of Reproduction Systems With Spatially Dynamic Program Material

Author(s): Pia Nancy Porysek Moreta, Søren Bech, Jon Francombe, Jan Østergaard, Steven van de Par
Published in: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Issue 72, 2024, Page(s) 522-570, ISSN 1549-4950
Publisher: Audio Engineering Society
DOI: 10.17743/jaes.2022.0168

Signal-to-Interference-Plus-Noise Ratio Based Optimization for Sound Zone Control

Author(s): Jesper Brunnström, Toon Van Waterschoot, Marc Moonen
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, Issue 4, 2023, Page(s) 257-266, ISSN 2644-1322
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ojsp.2023.3246398

Effects of Reduced Information in the Performance of Low-Frequency Sound Zones

Author(s): Cadavid, José; Møller, Martin Bo; van Waterschoot, Toon; Bech, Søren; Østergaard, Jan
Published in: AES Journal, Issue 9, 2025, ISSN 1549-4950
Publisher: Audio Engineering Society
DOI: 10.17743/jaes.2022.0207

Bayesian Sound Field Estimation Using Moving Microphones

Author(s): Jesper Brunnström, Martin Bo møLler, Marc Moonen
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, Issue 6, 2025, Page(s) 312-322, ISSN 2644-1322
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ojsp.2025.3526546

Conference proceedings (42)

Speech enhancement using binary estimator selection applied to hearing aids with a remote microphone

Author(s): Vasudha Sathyapriyan, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Mike Brookes, Jan Ostergaard, Patrick A. Naylor, Jesper Jensen
Published in: 2023 8th International Conference on Frontiers of Signal Processing (ICFSP), 2024, Page(s) 38-42
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icfsp59764.2023.10372902

Deep Joint Source-Channel Analog Coding for Low-Latency Speech Transmission Over Gaussian Channels

Author(s): Mohammad Bokaei, Jesper Jensen, Simon Doclo, Jan Østergaard
Published in: 2023 31st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2023, Page(s) 426-430
Publisher: EURASIP
DOI: 10.23919/eusipco58844.2023.10290056

Binaural Speech Enhancement Using Complex Convolutional Recurrent Networks

Author(s): Vikas Tokala, Eric Grinstein, Mike Brookes, Simon Doclo, Jesper Jensen, Patrick A. Naylor
Published in: 2023 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2024, Page(s) 1130-1134
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ieeeconf59524.2023.10476738

Canonical Voice Conversion and Dual-ChannelProcessing For Improved Voice Privacy of SpeechRecognition Data

Author(s): Dushyant Sharma, Francesco Nespoli1, Rong Gong, and Patrick A. Naylor
Published in: Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2023
Publisher: EURASIP

Distributed Adaptive Norm Estimation for Blind System Identification in Wireless Sensor Networks

Author(s): M. Blochberger, F. Elvander, R. Ali, J. Østergaard, J. Jensen, M. Moonen, T.van Waterschoot
Published in: ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-7281-6327-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icassp49357.2023.10096574

Spatial Sampling versus Acquisition Time of Room Impulse Responses for Low-Frequency Sound Zones

Author(s): José Cadavid, Martin Møller, Toon van Waterschoot, Søren Bech, Jan Østergaard
Published in: AES Europe Spring 2024, 2024
Publisher: Audio Engineering Society

Performance of Low Frequency Sound Zones Based on Truncated Room Impulse Responses

Author(s): José Miguel Cadavid Tobón, Martin Møller, Søren Bech, Toon van Waterschoot, Jan Østergaard
Published in: 17th International Audio Mostly Conference, 2022, ISBN 9781450397018
Publisher: ACM, New York, NY, USA
DOI: 10.1145/3561212.3561248

Sensory evaluation of spatially dynamic audiovisual sound scenes: a review

Author(s): Pia Nancy Porysek Moreta*, Søren Bech, Jon Francombe, Jan Østergaard, Steven van de Par, Neofytos Kaplanis
Published in: 152nd Audio Engineering Society Convention 2022 -, 2022
Publisher: Audio Engineering Society

Deep Digital Joint Source-Channel Based Wireless Speech Transmission

Author(s): Mohammad Bokaei, Jesper Jensen, Simon Doclo, Jan Østergaard1
Published in: Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2024), 2024
Publisher: EURASIP

Binaural Speech Enhancement Using STOI-Optimal Masks,

Author(s): V. Tokala, M. Brookes, and P. A. Naylor
Published in: Int. Workshop on Acoust. Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2209.15472

Deep complex-valued convolutional-recurrent networks for single source DOA estimation

Author(s): E. Grinstein and P.Naylor
Published in: International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), 2022, 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iwaenc53105.2022.9914747

Relative Acoustic Features for Distance Estimation in Smart-Homes.

Author(s): F. Nespoli, D. Barreda, and P. Naylor
Published in: Interspeech.2022, 2022
Publisher: ISCA
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.01306

Binaural Speech Enhancement Using Deep Complex Convolutional Transformer Networks

Author(s): Vikas Tokala, Eric Grinstein, Mike Brookes, Simon Doclo, Jesper Jensen, Patrick A. Naylor
Published in: ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024, Page(s) 681-685
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icassp48485.2024.10447090

Binaural Localization Model for Speech in Noise

Author(s): Vikas Tokala, Eric Grinstein, Rory Brooks, Mike Brookes, Simon Doclo, Jesper Jensen, Patrick A. Naylor
Published in: 2025
Publisher: European Acoustics Association
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.20027

Speaker Anonymization Using Neural Audio Codec Language Models

Author(s): Michele Panariello, Francesco Nespoli, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans
Published in: ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024, Page(s) 4725-4729
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icassp48485.2024.10447871

Spatial covariance estimation for sound field reproduction using kernel ridge regression

Author(s): Brunnström, Jesper; Moller, MB; Ostergaard, J; van Waterschoot, T; Moonen, M; Elvander, F
Published in: Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, 2025, ISSN 2221-3767
Publisher: Forum Acusticum

Long-Term Conversation Analysis: Privacy-Utility Trade-off under Noise and Reverberation

Author(s): Jule Pohlhausen, Francesco Nespoli, Joerg Bitzer
Published in: 2024
Publisher: IWAENC 2024
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.00382

Two-Stage Voice Anonymization for Enhanced Privacy

Author(s): Francesco Nespoli, Daniel Barreda, Jöerg Bitzer, Patrick A. Naylor
Published in: INTERSPEECH 2023, 2024, Page(s) 3854-3858
Publisher: ISCA
DOI: 10.21437/interspeech.2023-1341

A distributed steered response power approach to source localization in wireless acoustic sensor networks

Author(s): Cakmak, B; Dietzen, T; Ali, R; Naylor, P; van Waterschoot, Toon
Published in: 17th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement IWAENC 2022, 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iwaenc53105.2022.9914798

Head Orientation Estimation with Distributed Microphones Using Speech Radiation Patterns (Invited Paper)

Author(s): Kaspar Müller, Bilgesu Çakmak, Paul Didier, Simon Doclo, Jan Østergaard, Tobias Wolff
Published in: 2023 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2024, Page(s) 1404-1409
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ieeeconf59524.2023.10476825

One-Shot Distributed Node-Specific Signal Estimation with Non-Overlapping Latent Subspaces in Acoustic Sensor Networks

Author(s): Paul Didier, Pourya Behmandpoor, Toon van Waterschoot, Marc Moonen
Published in: 2024 18th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), 2024, Page(s) 260-264
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iwaenc61483.2024.10694548

Room impulse response prototyping using receiver distance estimations for high quality room equalisation algorithms

Author(s): James Brooks-Park, Martin Bo Møller, Jan Østergaard, Søren Bech, Steven van de Par
Published in: 18th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2409.10131

Improved Topology-Independent Distributed Adaptive Node-Specific Signal Estimation for Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks

Author(s): Didier, Paul; van Waterschoot, T; Doclo, S; Bitzer, J; Moonen, Marc
Published in: Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2025), 2025
Publisher: EURASIP

Zero Shot Text to Speech Augmentation for Automatic Speech Recognition on Low-Resource Accented Speech Corpora

Author(s): Francesco Nespoli, Daniel Barreda, Patrick A. Naylor
Published in: Proceedings of Asilomar conference 2023, 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2409.11107

A linear MMSE filter using delayed remote microphone signals for speech enhancement in hearing aid applications

Author(s): Vasudha Sathyapriyan, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Jan Østergaard, Mike Brooks, Patrick Naylor, Jesper Jensen
Published in: 2022 International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iwaenc53105.2022.9914711

Topology-independent GEVD-based distributed adaptive node-specific signal estimation in ad-hoc wireless acoustic sensor networks

Author(s): Didier, P; van Waterschoot, T; Moonen, Marc
Published in: Proceedings of EUSIPCO; 2024, 2024
Publisher: EURASIP
DOI: 10.23919/eusipco63174.2024.1071503

Reverberant Sound Field Equalisation for an Enhanced Stereo Playback Experience

Author(s): J. Brooks-Park, S. Van De Par
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023, 2024, Page(s) 5739-5742
Publisher: European Acoustics Association
DOI: 10.61782/fa.2023.0407

Speech Enhancement in Hearing Aids Using Target Speech Presence Estimation Based on a Delayed Remote Microphone Signal

Author(s): Vasudha Sathyapriyan, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Mike Brookes, Jan Østergaard, Patrick A. Naylor, Jesper Jensen
Published in: ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024, Page(s) 1006-1010
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icassp48485.2024.10446069

Graph Neural Networks for Sound Source Localization on Distributed Microphone Networks

Author(s): Eric Grinstein, Mike Brookes, Patrick A. Naylor
Published in: ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024, Page(s) 1-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icassp49357.2023.10097211

Deep Low-Latency Joint Speech Transmission and Enhancement over A Gaussian Channel

Author(s): Mohammad Bokaei, Jesper Jensen, Simon Doclo, Jan Østergaard
Published in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), 2024, Page(s) 525-529
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icasspw62465.2024.10626232

Robust Signal and Noise Covariance Matrix Estimation Using Riemannian Optimization

Author(s): Jesper Brunnström, Marc Moonen, Filip Elvander
Published in: 2024 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2024, Page(s) 291-295
Publisher: EURASIP
DOI: 10.23919/eusipco63174.2024.10715247

Bayesian Sound Field Estimation Using Uncertain Data

Author(s): Jesper Brunnström, Martin Bo Møller, Jan Østergaard, Marc Moonen
Published in: 2024 18th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), 2024, Page(s) 329-333
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iwaenc61483.2024.10694068

Model-based estimation of in-car-communication feedback applied to speech zone detection

Author(s): Kaspar Müller, Simon Doclo, Jan Østergaard, Tobias Wolff
Published in: 2022 International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iwaenc53105.2022.9914770

Microphone Subset Selection for the Weighted Prediction Error Algorithm Using a Group Sparsity Penalty

Author(s): Anselm Lohmann, Toon van Waterschoot, Joerg Bitzer, Simon Doclo
Published in: ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024, Page(s) 1101-1105
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icassp48485.2024.10448463

Sound Zone Control for Arbitrary Sound Field Reproduction Methods

Author(s): Jesper Brunnström, Toon van Waterschoot, Marc Moonen
Published in: 2023 31st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2023, Page(s) 341-345
Publisher: EURASIP
DOI: 10.23919/eusipco58844.2023.10289995

Distributed Cross-Relation-Based Frequency-Domain Blind System Identification using Online-ADMM

Author(s): M. Blochberger M., F. Elvander, R. Ali, M. Moonen, J Østergaard, J. Jensen, T. van Waterschoot,
Published in: 17th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Processing (IWAENC), 2022, 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iwaenc53105.2022.9914714

Fast Low-rank Filtered-x Least Mean Squares for Multichannel Active Noise Control

Author(s): Jesper Brunnström, Martin Jälmby, Toon Van Waterschoot, Marc Moonen
Published in: 2023 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2024, Page(s) 1085-1089
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ieeeconf59524.2023.10477017

Channel-Configurable Deep Wireless Speech Transmission

Author(s): Mohammad Bokaei, Jesper Jensen, Simon Doclo, Jan Østergaard
Published in: 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2024, Page(s) 1-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/wcnc57260.2024.10570880

Variable span trade-off filter for sound zone control with kernelinterpolation weighting

Author(s): Jesper Brunnström, Shoichi Koyama, Marc Moonen
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022, ISSN 1520-6149
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icassp43922.2022.9746550

Dereverberation in Acoustic Sensor Networks Using weighted Prediction Error with Microphone-Dependent Prediction Delays

Author(s): Anselm Lohmann, Toon van Waterschoot, Joerg Bitzer, Simon Doclo
Published in: ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023, Page(s) 1-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icassp49357.2023.10096992

Long-term Conversation Analysis: Exploring Utility and Privacy

Author(s): F. Nespoli, Jule Pohlhauses, P. Naylor, and Joerg Bitzer,
Published in: Proceeding of ITG Conference on Speech Communication 2023, 2023
Publisher: ITG
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.16071

Adaptive Coding in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks for Distributed Blind System Identification

Author(s): M. Blochberger, J. Østergaard, R. Ali, M. Moonen, F. Elvander, J. Jensen, T. Van Waterschoot
Published in: 2023 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2024, Page(s) 1420-1424
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ieeeconf59524.2023.10476940