Departmental Papers (ESE)
Document Type
Conference Paper
Date of this Version
May 2004
Abstract
The interaural time difference (ITD) of arrival is a primary cue for acoustic sound source localization. Traditional estimation techniques for ITD based upon cross-correlation are related to maximum-likelihood estimation of a simple generative model. We generalize the time difference estimation into a deconvolution problem with nonnegativity constraints. The resulting nonnegative least squares optimization can be efficiently solved using a novel iterative algorithm with guaranteed global convergence properties. We illustrate the utility of this algorithm using simulations and experimental results from a robot platform.
Keywords
acoustic signal processing, interaural time difference of arrival, deconvolution, delay estimation
Date Posted: 27 July 2004
This document has been peer reviewed.
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Copyright © 2004 IEEE. Reprinted from Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2004), held 17-24 May 2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Publisher URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isNumber=29344&page=7
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