Time difference of arrival estimation of speech source in a noisy and reverberant environment

Signal Processing

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 177-204

  Dvorkind, Tsvi G ^a   Gannot, Sharon ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Decorrelation; Non stationarity; Source localization; TDOA

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; ARRAYS; CAMERAS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MICROPHONES; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

DECORRELATION; NON-STATIONARY; SOURCE LOCALIZATION; TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL (TDOA);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 9944259790     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2004.09.014     Document Type: Article

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