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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Autores: Chakraborty, Rupayan, Nadeu Camprubí, Climent|||0000-0002-5863-0983, Butko, Taras
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/23384
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/23384
https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1687-4722-2014-18
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sound -- Transmission
Acoustic event detection
Fuzzy integral-based fusion
Null steering beamforming
Simultaneous sounds
Source position assignment
So -- Transmissió
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Processament del senyal::Processament de la parla i del senyal acústic
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Sumario: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.