Audio Forensic Gunshot Analysis and Multilateration

Maher RC, Hoerr E. Audio Forensic Gunshot Analysis and Multilateration. In: AES Convention 145. Audio Engineering Society; 2018. Paper 10100. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19826

@inproceedings{Maher2018_19826,
  author = {Maher, Robert C. and Hoerr, Ethan},
  title = {{Audio Forensic Gunshot Analysis and Multilateration}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 145},
  note = {Paper 10100},
  year = {2018},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19826}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Audio Forensic Gunshot Analysis and Multilateration
AU  - Maher, Robert C.
AU  - Hoerr, Ethan
T2  - AES Convention 145
M1  - Paper 10100
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018/10/06
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - This paper considers the opportunities and challenges of acoustic multilateration in gunshot forensics cases. Audio forensic investigations involving gunshot sounds may consist of multiple simultaneous but unsynchronized recordings obtained in the vicinity of the shooting incident. The multiple recordings may provide information useful to the forensic investigation, such as the location and orientation of the firearm, and if multiple guns were present, addressing the common question “who shot first?” Sound source localization from multiple recordings typically employs time difference of arrival (TDOA) estimation and related principles known as multilateration. In theory, multilateration can provide a good estimate of the sound source location, but in practice acoustic echoes, refraction, diffraction, reverberation, noise, and spatial/temporal uncertainty can be confounding.
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