Binaural estimation of sound source distance via the direct-to-reverberant energy ratio for static and moving sources

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1793-1805

  Lu, Yan Chen ^a   Cooke, Martin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acoustic distance measurement; binaural sound source localization; direct to reverberant energy ratio (DRR); particle filtering

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DISTANCE; ACOUSTIC DISTANCE; ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; BINAURAL SIGNALS; CANCELLATION TECHNIQUES; ENERGY FLUCTUATION; ENERGY RATIO; ENERGY-BASED MEASUREMENTS; INDIRECT PATHS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MOTION COMPLEXITY; MOVING SOURCE; NON-STATIONARITIES; PARTICLE FILTERING; PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; SOUND SOURCE; SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION; STATIC SOURCES;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; NONLINEAR FILTERING;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 77955695374     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2050687     Document Type: Article

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