WHY does PHAT work well in low noise, reverberative environments?

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2565-2568

  Zhang, Cha ^a   Florêlncio, Dinei ^a   Zhang, Zhengyou ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood; Noise; Phase transform; Reverberation; Sound source localization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; ACOUSTICS; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NONLINEAR FILTERING; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

LOW-NOISE; NOISE; PHASE TRANSFORM; SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION;

HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 51449085960     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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