用单频滤波提升麦克风阵列声源定位精度,尤其在混响和噪声环境下表现更优。
Single frequency filtering based multi-speaker direction of arrival estimation from stereo recordings

- 基于单频滤波提取语音激励特征,结合PHAT加权互相关增强定位鲁棒性
- 在真实房间场景下,定位准确率优于或媲美现有最优的GCC方法
- 发现语音主导频段可提升算法性能,为后续优化提供方向
从噪声与混响环境中的麦克风信号中实现稳健的方向到达(DoA)估计仍是挑战。传统方法如广义互相关(GCC)及其变体在短时傅里叶变换(STFT)域工作,其谱特征主要反映声道特性。近期基于单频滤波(SFF)的方法采用高时频分辨率表示,能同时捕捉谐波的高频率分辨率与激励事件(如周期性脉冲)的高时间分辨率。由于激励特征比谱特征对噪声和混响更具鲁棒性,本文提出一种改进的SFF-based DoA估计算法,通过PHAT加权互相关对多通道SFF输出包络进行相关处理。我们进一步利用公开的真实房间录音,在具有挑战性的混响、多说话人及噪声污染条件下,全面评估了SFF-based与最先进的GCC-based方法。实验结果表明,所提方法与已有SFF方法在所有测试场景下的检测率与定位精度均优于或媲美最佳的GCC-based方法。此外,我们证明使用语音主导频段可提升GCC-PHAT的鲁棒性,为未来将此类加权策略引入SFF-based DoA估计提供了动机。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Robust direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation from noisy and reverberant microphone signals remains challenging. Conventional estimators such as generalized cross-correlation (GCC) and its variants operate in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain, where spectral features primarily reflect vocal-tract characteristics. Recent single frequency filtering (SFF)-based estimators instead use a time-frequency representation that provides high spectral resolution of harmonics along with high temporal resolution of excitation-source events, such as epoch-like impulses. Since excitation-source features have been shown to be more robust to noise and reverberation than spectral features, this work proposes an improved SFF-based DoA estimator that correlates the envelopes of SFF outputs across microphone channels using PHAT-weighted GCC. We further provide a comprehensive evaluation of SFF-based and state-of-the-art GCC-based estimators using publicly available real-room recordings under challenging reverberant, multi-speaker, and noise-corrupted conditions. Experimental results show that the proposed method and an existing SFF-based estimator achieve detection and accuracy performance that is superior or comparable to the best GCC-based estimator across all test cases. We also demonstrate that using speech-dominant bins improves GCC-PHAT robustness, motivating future incorporation of such weighting strategies into SFF-based DoA estimation.
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