IEICE Trans - Tracking of Speaker Direction by Integrated Use of Microphone Pairs in Equilateral-Triangle

Tracking of Speaker Direction by Integrated Use of Microphone Pairs in Equilateral-Triangle

Yusuke HIOKA
Nozomu HAMADA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Vol.E88-A No.3 pp.633-641
Publication Date: 2005/03/01
Online ISSN:
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.3.633
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Adaptive Signal Processing and Its Applications)
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Keyword:
microphone array, speaker direction tracking, harmonic structure, steepest descent method, equilateral-triangular arrangement,

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Summary:
In this report, we propose a tracking algorithm of speaker direction using microphones located at vertices of an equilateral triangle. The method realizes tracking by minimizing a performance index that consists of the cross spectra at three different microphone pairs in the triangular array. We adopt the steepest descent method to minimize it, and for guaranteeing global convergence to the correct direction with high accuracy, we alter the performance index during the adaptation depending on the convergence state. Through some computer simulation and experiments in a real acoustic environment, we show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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