A two microphone-based approach for source localization of multiple speech sources

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1913-1928

  Zhang, Wenyi ^a   Rao, Bhaskar D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; direction of arrival (DOA) estimation; dual channel; generalized mixture decomposition algorithm (GMDA); sinusoidal modeling; source localization; sparsity; spatial aliasing; speech

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL (DOA) ESTIMATION; DUAL CHANNEL; GENERALIZED MIXTURE DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHM (GMDA); SINUSOIDAL MODELING; SOURCE LOCALIZATION; SPARSITY; SPATIAL ALIASING;

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; MICROPHONES; MIXTURES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WHITE NOISE;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77956285777     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2040525     Document Type: Article

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