Learning a precedence effect-like weighting function for the generalized cross-correlation framework

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2156-2164

  Wilson, Kevin W ^a   Darrell, Trevor ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic arrays; Array signal processing; Delay estimation; Direction of arrival estimation; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; AUDIO ENERGIES; AUDIO LOCALIZATIONS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DELAY ESTIMATION; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; LOCALIZATION PERFORMANCE; MICROPHONE ARRAY SYSTEMS; NON STATIONARIES; PRECEDENCE EFFECTS; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENTS; RIDGE REGRESSIONS; SOURCE LOCALIZATIONS; SPECTROGRAMS; SPEECH SIGNALS; TIME FREQUENCIES; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ECHO SUPPRESSION; MICROPHONES; RADIO DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING; TIME DELAY;

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL;

EID: 33947155770     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.872601     Document Type: Article

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