Disambiguation of TDOA estimation for multiple sources in reverberant environments

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1479-1489

  Scheuing, Jan ^a   Yang, Bin ^b  

^a Bosch Engineering GmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disambiguation of TDOA estimation in multipath multisource environments (DATEMM); Multiple sources; Raster matching; Reverberant environments; Synthesis of consistent graphs; TDOA estimation; Time difference of arrival (TDOA) ambiguity; Zero cyclic sum matching

Indexed keywords

DISAMBIGUATION OF TDOA ESTIMATION IN MULTIPATH MULTISOURCE ENVIRONMENTS (DATEMM); MULTIPLE SOURCES; RASTER MATCHING; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENTS; SYNTHESIS OF CONSISTENT GRAPHS; TDOA ESTIMATION; TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL (TDOA) AMBIGUITY; ZERO CYCLIC SUM MATCHING;

ALGORITHMS; REVERBERATION;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 70350435236     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2004533     Document Type: Article

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