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Energy Based Acoustic Source Localization

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Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2003)

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A novel source localization approach using acoustic energy measurements from the individual sensors in the sensor field is presented. This new approach is based on the acoustic energy decay model that acoustic energy decays inverse of distance square under the conditions that the sound propagates in the free and homogenous space and the targets are pre-detected to be in a certain region of the sensor field. This new approach is power efficient and needs low communication bandwidth and therefore, is suitable for the source localization in the distributed sensor network system. Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimation with Expectation Maximization (EM) solution and projection solution are proposed to solve this energy based source location (EBL) problem. Cramer-Rao Bound (CRB) is derived and used for the sensor deployment analysis. Experiments and simulations are conducted to evaluate ML algorithm with different solutions and to compare it with the Nonlinear Least Square (NLS) algorithm using energy ratio function that we proposed previously. Results show that energy based acoustic source localization algorithms are accurate and robust.

This project is supported by DARPA under grant no. F 30602-00-2-0555

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA

    Xiaohong Sheng & Yu-Hen Hu

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  1. Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA

    Feng Zhao

  2. Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Gates Building 374, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Leonidas Guibas

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Sheng, X., Hu, YH. (2003). Energy Based Acoustic Source Localization. In: Zhao, F., Guibas, L. (eds) Information Processing in Sensor Networks. IPSN 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2634. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36978-3_19

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