Maximum likelihood sound source localization and beamforming for directional microphone arrays in distributed meetings

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 538-548

  Zhang, Cha ^a,b   Florencio, Dinei ^a,b   Ba, Demba E ^c   Zhang, Zhengyou ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Directional mics; Microphone array; Sound source localization

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MICROPHONES;

DIRECTIONAL MICS; MICROPHONE ARRAY; SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 41549132299     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2008.917406     Document Type: Conference Paper

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