Binaural localization of multiple sources in reverberant and noisy environments

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1503-1512

  Woodruff, John ^a   Wang, DeLiang ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaural sound localization; Computational auditory scene analysis (CASA); Monaural grouping; Reverberation

Indexed keywords

REVERBERATION;

BINAURAL LOCALIZATION; BINAURAL SOUND LOCALIZATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MONAURAL GROUPING; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION; STATIONARY SOURCES;

BINS;

EID: 84872299752     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2183869     Document Type: Article

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