TY - GEN
T1 - Estimation of room impulse-response parameters using low-order microphone array
AU - Szpruch, Tal
AU - Rafaely, Boaz
PY - 2012/12/1
Y1 - 2012/12/1
N2 - Storaci- Estimation of the direction of arrival (DOA) of reflections in a room using spherical microphone arrays can be performed using several methods such as plane-wave decomposition, and delay-and-sum beamforming, for which the resolution of the estimation process is usually bounded by the array order, or the number of microphones. In this paper a method for DOA estimation of the reflections in a room using room impulse-response data and spherical microphone arrays is presented, in which only a first order microphone array is required. The proposed method uses signal processing in the spherical harmonics domain, utilizing an analytical dependence of the spherical harmonic coefficients on different acoustics parameters. It is shown that the zero order spherical harmonics coefficients is a function of the time delays and amplitudes of the planes waves composing the sound field, while the first order coefficients are a function of the time delays, amplitudes and the elevation and azimuth components of the wave arrival direction. Using this property leads to the development of an estimator based on the least-squares approach, in which each order is used to estimate a single sound-field parameter.
AB - Storaci- Estimation of the direction of arrival (DOA) of reflections in a room using spherical microphone arrays can be performed using several methods such as plane-wave decomposition, and delay-and-sum beamforming, for which the resolution of the estimation process is usually bounded by the array order, or the number of microphones. In this paper a method for DOA estimation of the reflections in a room using room impulse-response data and spherical microphone arrays is presented, in which only a first order microphone array is required. The proposed method uses signal processing in the spherical harmonics domain, utilizing an analytical dependence of the spherical harmonic coefficients on different acoustics parameters. It is shown that the zero order spherical harmonics coefficients is a function of the time delays and amplitudes of the planes waves composing the sound field, while the first order coefficients are a function of the time delays, amplitudes and the elevation and azimuth components of the wave arrival direction. Using this property leads to the development of an estimator based on the least-squares approach, in which each order is used to estimate a single sound-field parameter.
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U2 - 10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377112
DO - 10.1109/EEEI.2012.6377112
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871989763
SN - 9781467346801
T3 - 2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI 2012
BT - 2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI 2012
Y2 - 14 November 2012 through 17 November 2012
ER -