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inria-00630994, version 2

Multi-source TDOA estimation in reverberant audio using angular spectra and clustering

Charles Blandin () a1, Alexey Ozerov () a1, Emmanuel Vincent () 1

Signal Processing 92 (2012) 1950-1960

Résumé : We consider the problem of estimating the time differences of arrival (TDOAs) of multiple sources from a two-channel reverberant audio signal. While several clustering-based or angular spectrum-based methods have been proposed in the literature, only relatively small-scale experimental evaluations restricted to either category of methods have been carried out so far. We design and conduct the first large-scale experimental evaluation of these methods and investigate a two-step procedure combining angular spectra and clustering. In addition, we introduce and evaluate five new TDOA estimation methods inspired from signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) weighting and probabilistic multi-source modeling techniques that have been successful for anechoic TDOA estimation and audio source separation. The results show that clustering-based methods do not improve upon angular spectrum-based methods. For 5 cm microphone spacing, the best TDOA estimation performance is achieved by one of the proposed SNR-based angular spectrum methods. For larger spacing, a variant of the generalized cross-correlation with phase transform (GCC-PHAT) method performs best.

  • a –  INRIA
  • 1 :  METISS (INRIA - IRISA)
  • CNRS : UMR6074 – INRIA – INSA Rennes – Université de Rennes 1
  • Domaine : Informatique/Traitement du signal et de l'image
    Sciences de l'ingénieur/Traitement du signal et de l'image
  • Commentaire : Revised version including minor corrections in equations (17) – (18) and Figure 1 compared to the version published by Elsevier.
  • Versions disponibles :  v1 (11-10-2011) v2 (06-03-2012)
 
  • inria-00630994, version 2
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  • Soumis le : Mardi 6 Mars 2012, 11:50:36
  • Dernière modification le : Mercredi 7 Mars 2012, 17:51:26
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