Sound Processing in Real-Life Environments

Dear Colleagues,

Sound processing has aroused interest in recent times with the appearance of applications in real life—both domestic and industrial. In this sense, applications have been developed for acoustic monitoring in smart cities and for indoor surveillance. Sound processing has also been applied to industry, providing key information to detect problems in certain systems. Other applications of interest, such as those related to the development of digital hearing aids, musical applications, automatic wildlife monitoring, or biomedical applications, are also important in this area.In all cases, tasks like sound event detection, sound sources location, and acoustic environments classification, among others, must be carried out. When working with real signals, the algorithms must deal with problems such as background noise, reverberation, interference, obstacles, and attenuation with distance, which affect the final operation of the developed application. Additionally, some applications have to be tackled with time-variant environments.This Special Issue focuses on developing sound signal processing algorithms for real-life applications, such as those mentioned above.

Prof. Dr. Manuel Rosa Zurera
Prof. Dr. Roberto Gil Pita
Prof. Dr. Manuel Utrilla Manso
Prof. Dr. Maria de Diego Antón
Guest Editors

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