Title
Speaker Direction-Of-Arrival Estimation Based On Frequency-Independent Beampattern
Abstract
The differential microphone array (DMA) becomes more and more popular recently. In this paper, we derive the relationship between the direction-of-arrival (DoA) and DMA's frequency independent beampatterns. The derivation demonstrates that the DoA can be yielded by solving a trigonometric polynomial. Taking the dipoles as a special case of this relationship, we propose three methods to estimate the DoA based on the dipoles. However, we find these methods are vulnerable to the axial directions under the reverberation environment. Fortunately, they can complement each other owing to their robustness to different angles. Hence, to increase the robustness to the reverberation, we proposed another new approach by combining the advantages of these three dipole-based methods for the speaker DoA estimation. Both simulations and experiments show that the proposed method not only outperforms the traditional methods for small aperture array but also is much more computationally efficient with avoiding the spatial spectrum search.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.21437/Interspeech.2017-229
18TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2017), VOLS 1-6: SITUATED INTERACTION
Keywords
Field
DocType
DoA estimation, Frequency-independent beam pattern, differential microphone array, dipoles
Computer science,Direction of arrival,Speech recognition
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2308-457X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
feng guo1253.88
Yuhang Cao201.35
zheng liu326721.86
Jiaen Liang4216.38
Baoqing Li522.04
Xiaobing Yuan641.74