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Distributed multimodal learning for cooperative acoustic source localization and classification


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The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.

The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
  

Reference

SL-DRT-26-0674  

Direction

DRT

Thesis topic details

Category

Engineering science

Thesis topics

Distributed multimodal learning for cooperative acoustic source localization and classification

Contract

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Job description

In many complex environments, such as industrial sites, disaster-stricken buildings, or public spaces, it is necessary to automatically detect and localize sound events (falls, alarms, voices, mechanical failures). Mobile platforms equipped with cameras and microphones represent a promising solution, but a single platform remains limited: its microphone array provides an approximate direction towards the source but not a precise position in space, and its camera may be obstructed. This thesis proposes to study how a network of mobile platform, each carrying a calibrated audio-visual unit, can collaborate to localize and classify such events in 3D. Each platform analyses its own audio-visual observations and shares an estimate of the source direction with its neighbours; the network then combines these estimates to reconstruct the position of the event and identify it. The expected outcomes are a cooperative localization system that is robust to occlusions and partial platform failures.

University / doctoral school

Sciences et Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (STIC)
Paris-Saclay

Thesis topic location

Site

Saclay

Requester

Position start date

01/10/2026

Person to be contacted by the applicant

MACARIO BARROS Andréa andrea.barros@cea.fr
CEA
DRT

Tutor / Responsible thesis director

NGOLE MBOULA Fred Maurice fred-maurice.ngole-mboula@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/LIST/DIN/SMCD/LIIDE
CEA-Saclay, Digiteo
0169081194

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