Security monitoring using microphone arrays and audio classification

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1025-1032

  Abu El Quran, Ahmad R ^a   Goubran, Rafik A ^a   Chan, Adrian D C ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audio classification; Beamforming; Feature extraction; Microphone arrays; Security monitoring; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUDIO SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MICROPHONES; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AUDIO CLASSIFICATION; AUDIO SEGMENTS; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; PITCH RATIO (PR); SECURITY MONITORING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 33746343027     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.876394     Document Type: Article

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