Fodróczi Zoltán, László and Radványi, András (2008) Localization of Directional Sound Sources Supported by a priori Information of the Acoustic Environment. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2008.

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

Speaker localization with microphone arrays has received significant attention in the past decade as a means for automated speaker tracking of individuals in a closed space for videoconferencing systems, directed speech capture systems, and surveillance systems. Traditional techniques are based on estimating the relative time difference of arrivals (TDOA) between different channels, by utilizing crosscorrelation function. As we show in the context of speaker localization, these estimates yield poor results, due to the joint effect of reverberation and the directivity of sound sources. In this paper, we present a novel method that utilizes a priori acoustic information of the monitored region, which makes it possible to localize directional sound sources by taking the effect of reverberation into account. The proposed method shows significant improvement of performance compared with traditional methods in “noise-free” condition. Further work is required to extend its capabilities to noisy environments.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	source localization, microphone arrays, beamforming, accumulated correlation
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics and Computer Science > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science / számítástechnika, számítógéptudomány
Divisions:	Cellular Sensory and Optical Wave Computing Laboratory
Depositing User:	EPrints Admin
Date Deposited:	11 Dec 2012 15:26
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2012 15:26
URI:	https://eprints.sztaki.hu/id/eprint/4353

Update Item