Robust Time Delay Estimation Exploiting Redundancy Among Multiple Microphones

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 549-557

  Chen, Jingdong ^a   Benesty, Jacob ^b   Huang, Yiteng ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross correlation coefficient; Linear prediction; Spatial correlation; Time delay estimation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DISTORTION; ACOUSTICS; CORRELATION METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

LINEAR PREDICTION; SPATIAL CORRELATION; TIME DELAY ESTIMATION;

MICROPHONES;

EID: 0347338032     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.818025     Document Type: Article

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