TDOA estimation for multiple sound sources in noisy and reverberant environments using broadband independent component analysis

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1490-1503

  Lombard, Anthony ^a   Zheng, Yuanhang ^a   Buchner, Herbert ^b   Kellermann, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic source localization; adaptive filters; independent component analysis; microphone arrays; reverberation; time difference of arrival (TDOA) estimation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SOURCE LOCALIZATION; BATCH MODES; BLIND SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; DIRECTIVITY PATTERN; FAST-TRACKING; ICA ALGORITHMS; LOCALIZATION METHOD; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MOVING SOURCE; NATURAL GRADIENT; REAL SPEECH SOURCES; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; SIGNAL MODELS; SINGLE PATH; SOUND PROPAGATION; SOUND SOURCE; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SPEED-UPS; STATIONARY NOISE; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCE; TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL; TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL (TDOA) ESTIMATION; TWO-CHANNEL;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ESTIMATION; MICROPHONES; REVERBERATION; SENSORS;

INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 79957740368     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2092765     Document Type: Article

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