Sound Source Localization in a Reverberant Room Using Harmonic Based Music

Lachlan Birnie, Thushara D. Abhayapala, Hanchi Chen, Prasanga N. Samarasinghe

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    Abstract

    The localization of acoustic sound sources is beneficial to signal processing applications of speech enhancement, dereverberation, separation and tracking. Difficulties in position estimation arise in real world environments due to coherent reflections degrading performance of subspace localization techniques. This paper proposes a method of multiple signal classification (MUSIC) subspace localization, which is suitable for reverberant rooms. The method is based on the modal decomposition of a room's region-to-region transfer function, which is assumed to be known. We perform a numerical simulation of four sound sources in a reverberant room, and show that the localization method exhibits increased spatial resolution and distance focusing abilities when the region-to-region transfer function is incorporated. The proposed method is successful in estimating three-dimensional sound source positions without distortion due to reverberation. Index Terms- Coherent MUSIC, source localization, reverberant environment, modal decomposition.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019 - Proceedings
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages651-655
    Number of pages5
    ISBN (Electronic)9781479981311
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - May 2019
    Event44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019 - Brighton, United Kingdom
    Duration: 12 May 201917 May 2019

    Publication series

    NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
    Volume2019-May
    ISSN (Print)1520-6149

    Conference

    Conference44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityBrighton
    Period12/05/1917/05/19

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