Sound Event Detection and Localization with Distance Estimation

Understand

Sound Event Detection and Localization (SELD) is a combined task of identifying sound events and their corresponding direction-of-arrival (DOA).

• While this task has numerous applications and has been extensively researched in recent years, it fails to provide full information about the sound source position.
• In this paper, we overcome this problem by extending the task to Sound Event Detection, Localization with Distance Estimation (3D SELD).
• We study two ways of integrating distance estimation within the SELD core - a multi-task approach, in which the problem is tackled by a separate model output, and a single-task approach obtained by extending the multi-ACCDOA method to include distance information.