awesomebytes/irl_audio

A fork of IntRoLab's original ROS packages for ManyEars

irl_audio

A set of ROS packages for ManyEars, IntRoLab's sound localization and tracking library.

Based on the old manyears_ros distribution, but with various fixes and catkin compatible.

manyears_ros

This package is a ROS wrapper for the ManyEars sound localization library.

Kinect usage

ManyEars is compatible and already configured to work with a first generation Microsoft Kinect. Since it uses the rt_audio_ros sub-package, your Kinect has to be configured to be used as a standard USB Audio Class device. To do so, refer to the HARK-KINECT project:

http://www.hark.jp/wiki.cgi?page=HARK-KINECT+Installation+Instructions+%28as+a+USB+recording+device%29

Then, refer to the 'manyears_node_kinect.launch' launch file in the manyears_ros package, which will automatically launch both rt_audio_ros for sound cature and manyears_node for sound localization. Tracked sources details will appear on the '/tracked_sources' topic, while the '/source_pose' geometry_msgs/PoseStamped topic will have the location of the source with the highest energy. Keep in mind that only the orientation on the XY plane in front of the Kinect is considered, and so only the angle around Z should be used.