Title
Multi-Level Time-Frequency Bins Selection for Direction of Arrival Estimation Using a Single Acoustic Vector Sensor
Abstract
In the context of multi-source direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in an enclosed environment, the challenges include reverberation and overlapping of multiple simultaneous active sources. To address these interferences, the identification of time-frequency (TF) bins dominated by the sources signals is essential. In this work, we propose an intensity vector (IV) based TF bins selection technique for DOA estimation using a single acoustic vector sensor (AVS). The proposed technique involves multi-level inliers selection and outliers removal (MLISOR), which is implemented in three steps. In the first step, we derive the distribution of IVs and then select IVs using a norm metric. In the second step, the regions with the highest local IV density in each time frame are identified. In the third step, we cluster the IVs according to their directions and remove the outliers based on the member-to-centroid angle metric. Simulation results show that both the accuracy and the robustness of the proposed technique outperform the existing techniques. The indoor experimental results also verify that the proposed technique is effective and robust in practical situations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TASLP.2022.3155276
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Acoustic vector sensor (AVS),direction of arrival (DOA),intensity vector (IV),pseudo-intensity-vector (PIV),reverberation,spherical microphone array (SMA),time-frequency (TF) bins
Journal
30
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
2329-9290
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
21
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jianhua Geng101.01
Sifan Wang201.01
Qinglai Liu312.08
Xin Lou4206.30