Title
Simultaneous localization of multiple sound sources using blind adaptive MIMO filtering
Abstract
Blind adaptive filtering for time delay of arrival (TDOA) estimation is a very powerful method for acoustic source localization in reverberant environments with broadband signals like speech. Based on a recently presented generic framework for blind signal processing for convolutive mixtures, called TRINICON, we present a TDOA estimation method for simultaneous multidimensional localization of multiple sources. Moreover, an interesting link to the known single-input multiple-output (SIMO)-based adaptive eigenvalue decomposition (AED) method is shown. We evaluate the novel multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-based approach and compare it with the known SIMO-based method in a reverberant acoustic environment using reference data of the positions obtained from infrared sensors. The results show that the new approach is very robust against reverberation and background noise.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415655
ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
MIMO systems,adaptive filters,audio signal processing,blind source separation,delay estimation,eigenvalues and eigenfunctions,reverberation,SIMO-based adaptive eigenvalue decomposition,TDOA estimation,background noise robustness,blind adaptive MIMO filtering,broadband speech signals,convolutive mixtures,multidimensional localization,reverberant environments,reverberation,simultaneous multiple sound source localization,time delay of arrival estimation
Multidimensional signal processing,Reverberation,Background noise,Pattern recognition,Computer science,MIMO,Filter (signal processing),Artificial intelligence,Adaptive filter,Blind signal separation,Acoustic source localization
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3
1520-6149
0-7803-8874-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
22
2.77
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Herbert Buchner143540.57
R. Aichner2385.64
Stenglein, J.3222.77
Teutsch, H.4222.77