Robust localisation of multiple speakers exploiting head movements and multi-conditional training of binaural cues

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 2679-2683

  May, Tobias ^a   Ma, Ning ^b   Brown, Guy J ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

binaural sound source localisation; generalisation; head movements; multi conditional training

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; REVERBERATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

BINAURAL SOUND SOURCE LOCALISATION; FRONT-BACK CONFUSION; GENERALISATION; HEAD MOVEMENTS; INTERAURAL LEVEL DIFFERENCES; INTERAURAL TIME DIFFERENCES; ROOM REVERBERATIONS; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION;

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84946081152     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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