A generalized steered response power method for computationally viable source localization

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2510-2526

  Dmochowski, Jacek P ^a   Benesty, Jacob ^a   Affes, Sofiène ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Microphone arrays; Source localization; Spectral estimation; Steered response power (SRP)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SOURCES; ALGORITHM PARAMETERS; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; BASIS FUNCTIONS; BEAM FORMERS; CANDIDATE LOCATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL DEMANDS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACHES; CROSS CORRELATIONS; ENERGY MAPS; FULL SEARCHES; INVERSE MAPPINGS; LOCALIZATION ACCURACIES; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; REAL-TIME SETTINGS; RELATIVE DELAYS; SOUND FIELDS; SOURCE LOCALIZATION; SOURCE LOCALIZATION METHODS; SPATIAL DECOMPOSITIONS; SPECTRAL ESTIMATION; STEERED RESPONSE POWER (SRP);

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; LOCATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MICROPHONES;

EID: 48849087208     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.906694     Document Type: Article

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