Robust Adaptive Time Delay Estimation for Speaker Localization in Noisy and Reverberant Acoustic Environments

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2003, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1110-1124

  Doclo, Simon ^a   Moonen, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acoustic source localization; Generalized eigenvalue decomposition; Stochastic gradient; Time delay estimation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; DELAY CIRCUITS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GRADIENT METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROPHONES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MATHEMATICAL DECOMPOSITION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0242334709     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S111086570330602X     Document Type: Article

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