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Multi-Source Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Using Improved Estimation Consistency Method

Audio and Speech Processing 2019-12-30 v1

Abstract

We address the problem of estimating direction-of-arrivals (DOAs) for multiple acoustic sources in a reverberant environment using a spherical microphone array. It is well-known that multi-source DOA estimation is challenging in the presence of room reverberation, environmental noise and overlapping sources. In this work, we introduce multiple schemes to improve the robustness of estimation consistency (EC) approach in reverberant and noisy conditions through redefined and modified parametric weights. Simulation results show that our proposed methods achieve superior performance compared to the existing EC approach, especially when the sources are spatially close in a reverberant environment.

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@article{arxiv.1912.11781,
  title  = {Multi-Source Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Using Improved Estimation Consistency Method},
  author = {Rohith Mars and Hiroyuki Ehara and Srikanth Nagisetty and Chong Soon Lim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.11781},
  year   = {2019}
}
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