Narrowband multi-source Direction-of-Arrival estimation in the spherical harmonic domain
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Author(s)
Hafezi, Sina
Moore, Alastair
Naylor, Patrick
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
A conventional approach to wideband multi-source (MS) direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is to perform single source (SS) DOA estimation in time-frequency (TF) bins for which a SS assumption is valid. Such methods use the W-disjoint orthogonality (WDO) assumption due to the speech sparseness. As the number of sources increases, the chance of violating the WDO assumption increases. As shown in the challenging scenarios with multiple simultaneously active sources over a short period of time masking each other, it is possible for a strongly masked source (due to inconsistency of activity or quietness) to be rarely dominant in a TF bin. SS-based DOA estimators fail in the detection or accurate localization of masked sources in such scenarios. Two analytical approaches are proposed for narrowband DOA estimation based on the MS assumption in a bin in the spherical harmonic domain. In the first approach, eigenvalue decomposition is used to decompose a MS scenario into multiple SS scenarios, and a SS-based analytical DOA estimation is performed on each. The second approach analytically estimates two DOAs per bin assuming the presence of two active sources per bin. The evaluation validates the improvement to double accuracy and robustness to sensor noise compared to the baseline methods.
Date Issued
2021-04-01
Date Acceptance
2021-03-18
Citation
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021, 149 (4)
ISSN
0001-4966
Publisher
Acoustical Society of America
Journal / Book Title
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume
149
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
© 2021 Acoustical Society of America.
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant Number
EP/M026698/1
EP/S035842/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Acoustics
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Acoustics
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 2292
Date Publish Online
2021-04-05