This repository contains the final release of the development and evaluation datasets for the LOCATA Challenge.

The challenge of sound source localization in realistic environments has attracted widespread attention in the Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing (AASP) community in recent years. Source localization approaches in the literature address the estimation of positional information about acoustic sources using a pair of microphones, microphone arrays, or networks with distributed acoustic sensors. The IEEE AASP Challenge on acoustic source LOCalization And TrAcking (LOCATA) aimed at providing researchers in source localization and tracking with a framework to objectively benchmark results against competing algorithms using a common, publicly released data corpus that encompasses a range of realistic scenarios in an enclosed acoustic environment.