The fusion of distributed microphone arrays for sound localization

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2003, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 338-347

  Aarabi, Parham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information fusion; Microphone arrays; Sensor fusion; Sensor integration; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; MICROPHONES; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MICROPHONE ARRAYS;

ARRAYS;

EID: 0037445320     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865703212014     Document Type: Article

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