Spherical harmonics domain-based approach for source localization in presence of directional interference

This paper presents a learning-based method for source localization in the presence of directional interference under reverberant and noisy conditions. The proposed method operates on the spherical harmonic decomposition of the spherical microphone array recordings to yield spherical harmonics coefficients as the features. An attention mechanism is incorporated through a binary mask that filters out the dominant undesired source components from the features before training. A convolutional neural network is trained to map the phase and magnitude of the filtered coefficients with the location class. Hence, the objective is to develop the binary mask followed by source localization.