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Convention Paper

A Bayesian Framework for Sound Source Localization

Authors: Escolano, José; Cobos, Máximo; Pérez-Lorenzo, Jose M.; López, José J.; Xiang, Ning

AES Convention 132 · Paper 8668 · April 2012

Abstract

The localization of sound sources, and particularly speech, has a numerous number of applications to the industry.

This has motivated a continuous effort in developing robust direction-of-arrival detection algorithms.

Time difference of arrival-based methods, and particularly, generalized cross-correlation

approaches have been widely investigated in acoustic signal processing. Once a probability function is obtained, indicating those directions of arrival with highest probability, the vast

majority of methods have to assume a certain number of sound sources in order to process the information conveniently.

In this paper, a model selection based on a Bayesian framework is proposed in order to determine, in an unsupervised way,

how many sound sources are estimated together with the parameters estimation. Real measurements using two microphones are used to corroborate the proposed model.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 132
AES Convention
132
Paper number
8668
Publication date
April 6, 2012
Session subject
Spatial Audio
Affiliation
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA; Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain; University of Jaen, Linares, Spain, ; University of Jaén; University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper