Source ambiguity resolution of overlapped sounds in a multi-microphone room environment

When several acoustic sources are simultaneously active in a meeting room scenario, and both the position of the sources and the identity of the time-overlapped sound classes have been estimated, the problem of assigning each source position to one of the sound classes still remains. This problem is...

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Published in:EURASIP journal on audio, speech, and music processing speech, and music processing, 2014-04, Vol.2014 (1), p.1, Article 18
Main Authors: Chakraborty, Rupayan, Nadeu, Climent, Butko, Taras
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustics
Engineering
Engineering Acoustics
Mathematics in Music
Signal,Image and Speech Processing
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Summary:When several acoustic sources are simultaneously active in a meeting room scenario, and both the position of the sources and the identity of the time-overlapped sound classes have been estimated, the problem of assigning each source position to one of the sound classes still remains. This problem is found in the real-time system implemented in our smart-room, where it is assumed that up to two acoustic events may overlap in time and the source positions are relatively well separated in space. The position assignment system proposed in this work is based on fusion of model-based log-likelihood ratios obtained after carrying out several different partial source separations in parallel. To perform the separation, frequency-invariant null-steering beamformers, which can work with a small number of microphones, are used. The experimental results using all the six microphone arrays deployed in the room show a high assignment rate in our particular scenario.
ISSN:1687-4722
1687-4714
1687-4722
DOI:10.1186/1687-4722-2014-18