Estimation of sound source number and directions under a multi-source environment

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 181-186

  Hu, Jwu Sheng ^a   Yang, Chia Hsing ^a   Wang, Cheng Kang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGEN-STRUCTURE; ESTIMATION METHODS; ESTIMATION RESULTS; GENERALIZED CROSS CORRELATION METHODS; K-MEANS; LEAST SQUARE METHODS; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MULTI-SOURCE ENVIRONMENT; ROBOT AUDITION; SOUND SOURCE; SOUND SOURCE DIRECTION; SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPEED;

ESTIMATION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MICROPHONES; TIME DELAY;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS;

EID: 76249086770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354706     Document Type: Conference Paper

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