Datasets

The final release of the datasets and software developed for the LOCATA Challenge could be downloaded via the following links:

• Evaluation and Development dataset with all ground truth data
• MATLAB framework to read datasets and run algorithms
• MATLAB framework for evaluation of participants’ submissions
• Documentation (PDF file)

Important: The originally released development database has been corrected. For Task 2, Rec. 2 has been removed and the voice activity labeling and source signals for Rec.3 have been corrected.

Please cite the following papers if you use the data corpus of the LOCATA Challenge:

H. W. Löllmann, C. Evers, A. Schmidt, H. Mellmann, H. Barfuss, P. A. Naylor, and W. Kellermann
The LOCATA Challenge Data Corpus for Acoustic Source Localization and Tracking
IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), Sheffield, UK, July 2018

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C. Evers, H. W. Löllmann, H. Mellmann, A. Schmidt, H. Barfuss, P. A. Naylor, W. Kellermann
The LOCATA Challenge: Acoustic Source Localization and Tracking
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 28, pp. 1620-1643,  April 2020

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