Using reverberation to improve range and elevation discrimination for small array sound source localization

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1781-1792

  Ribeiro, Flavio ^a   Zhang, Cha ^a   Florêncio, Dinei A ^b   Ba, Demba Elimane ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Array processing; circular microphone array; distance discrimination; image method; range estimation; sound source localization (SSL)

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR MICROPHONE ARRAY; DISTANCE DISCRIMINATION; IMAGE METHOD; RANGE ESTIMATION; SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; ARRAY PROCESSING; DEGRADATION; ESTIMATION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MICROPHONES; NONLINEAR FILTERING; RANGE FINDERS; REFLECTION; REVERBERATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77955692215     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2052250     Document Type: Article

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