Heiner Löllmann and Christine Evers EARS Database Heiner Löllmann and Christine Evers SB Meeting Erlangen, December, 2016

H. Löllmann: EARS database Goal EARS data base should be recorded should be made publicly available (via the EARS website) part of our dissemination activities and promised deliverables stimulates research on robot audition and allows to compare results benchmarking of algorithms for real data recordings basis for a later challenge on localization and tracking only a subset of the measurements will be used for that Schedule 3 (or more) days of data recording at UBER opti track system needed to get the ground truth data for the moving sources pilot recordings in December (such that it can be attributed to EARS) final recordings in January (Christine, FAU (N.N.)) H. Löllmann: EARS database

H. Löllmann: EARS database Setups and Scenarios Possible microphone configurations 12-mic prototype head with the robomorphic array 32-channel Eigenmike DICIT array (includes an ULA) binaural recordings with hearing aid dummies on a dummy head Scenarios microphone arrays at a fixed place walking robots (not for the challenge) fixed and moving speakers one or multiple speakers interfering noise room reverberations H. Löllmann: EARS database

H. Löllmann: EARS database Challenge General remarks no distinction between localization and tracking task separate challenge tasks for different scenarios reverberation might be influenced to some extend by a carpet etc. reasonably complex tasks no dedicated training data but an development database (similar as for the ACE challenge) H. Löllmann: EARS database

H. Löllmann: EARS database Challenge Scenarios (sources=speakers) single source stationary, stationary sensors, babble noise two sources stationary, stationary sensors, babble noise single moving source, stationary sensors, babble noise single moving sources, moving sensors, babble noise multiple moving sources, moving sensors, babble noise Sources and sensors are moved by a trolley HRTF measurements collection of available HRTF measurements (by FAU) might be done at Oldenburg, Aachen or Bochum (FAU will check) for 12 mic robot head, dummy head with HAs, Acoustic conditions can be changed by varying to some extend T60 (by a carpet etc.) distance and DRR varies ‘naturally’ H. Löllmann: EARS database

H. Löllmann: EARS database Next Steps Measurement script (IMPERIAL and FAU) specification of the tasks and evaluation measures scripts for the evaluation and recordings HRTF measurements (to be organized by FAU) Organization of measurement campaign (IMPERIAL, FAU and UBER) Potential participants (should be contacted before the challenge) NTT, Fraunhofer, Google, Amazon, INRIA, Oldenburg, Bochum, HA companies, BMW(?), Group of Sharon Gannot, etc. Proposal of a challenge to IEEE AASP-TC (prepared by Christine) Announcement of the challenge at the HSCMA (Christine) Dissemination workshop IWAENC 2018 in Tokyo Leader to be named? (perhaps FAU) H. Löllmann: EARS database