학술논문

Suitable spatial resolution at frequency bands based on variances of phase differences for real-time talker localization
Document Type
Conference
Source
2013 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA), 2013 Asia-Pacific. :1-4 Oct, 2013
Subject
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal Processing and Analysis
Spatial resolution
Accuracy
Microphones
Signal to noise ratio
Time-frequency analysis
Estimation
Position measurement
Language
Abstract
Conventional near-field talker localization methods with microphone-array calculate spatial spectrum in each scanning position of discretized space and each frequency. Hence, elapsed time is increased and real-time processing is difficult. Real-time processing is important for achieving the natural interaction with the speech interfaces. To overcome this problem, we newly propose a talker localization method based on Multi-resolution Scanning in Frequency Domain (MSFD). MSFD utilizes lower spatial resolution in the lower frequency band and higher spatial resolution in the higher frequency band to reduce elapsed time. We also propose a calculation method for suitable spatial resolution at each frequency on the basis of the variances of phase differences among microphones. The results of evaluation experiment indicated that the proposed MSFD could reduce the elapsed time without degrading the localization accuracy.