Multiple source localization using estimation consistency in the time-frequency domain
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Hafezi, S
Moore, AH
Naylor, P
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
The extraction of multiple Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) information from estimated spatial spectra can be challenging when such spectra are noisy or the sources are adjacent. Smoothing or clustering techniques are typically used to remove the effect of noise or irregular peaks in the spatial spectra. As we will explain and show in this paper, the smoothing-based techniques require prior knowledge of minimum angular separation of the sources and the clustering-based techniques fail on noisy spatial spectrum. A broad class of localization techniques give direction estimates in each Time Frequency (TF) bin. Using this information as input, a novel technique for obtaining robust localization of multiple simultaneous sources is proposed using Estimation Consistency (EC) in the TF domain. The method is evaluated in the context of spherical microphone arrays. This technique does not require prior knowledge of the sources and by removing the noise in the estimated spatial spectrum makes clustering a reliable and robust technique for multiple DoA extraction from estimated spatial spectra. The results indicate that the proposed technique has the strongest robustness to separation with up to 10° median error for 5° to 180° separation for 2 and 3 sources, compared to the baseline and the state-of-the-art techniques.
Date Issued
2017-06-19
Date Acceptance
2016-12-12
Citation
2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2017, pp.516-520
ISSN
1520-6149
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Start Page
516
End Page
520
Journal / Book Title
2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Grant Number
609465
Source
2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Acoustics
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Engineering
localization
direction-of-arrival estimation
intensity vector
estimation consistency
direct-path-dominance
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2017-03-05
Finish Date
2017-03-09
Coverage Spatial
New Orleans
Date Publish Online
2017-06-19