A machine-hearing system exploiting head movements for binaural sound localisation in reverberant conditions

Tobias May; Ning Ma; Hagen Wierstorf; Guy Brown

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178461

A machine-hearing system exploiting head movements for binaural sound localisation in reverberant conditions

Tobias May, Ning Ma, Hagen Wierstorf, Guy Brown

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This paper is concerned with machine localisation of multiple active speech sources in reverberant environments using two (binaural) microphones. Such conditions typically present a problem for ‘classical’ binaural models. Inspired by the human ability to utilise head movements, the current study investigated the influence of different head movement strategies on binaural sound localisation. A machine-hearing system that exploits a multi-step head rotation strategy for sound localisation was found to produce the best performance in simulated reverberant acoustic space. This paper also reports the public release of a free binaural room impulse responses (BRIRs) database that allows the simulation of head rotation used in this study.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2015)
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2015
Pages	2699-2703
ISBN (Print)	9781467369978
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178461
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Brisbane, Australia Duration: 19 Apr 2015 → 24 Apr 2015 Conference number: 40 https://icassp2015.org/

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Conference	2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Number	40
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Brisbane
Period	19/04/2015 → 24/04/2015
Internet address	https://icassp2015.org/

Keywords

Head movements
Binaural localisation
Machine hearing
Reverberation
Binaural room impulse response

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May, T, Ma, N, Wierstorf, H & Brown, G 2015, A machine-hearing system exploiting head movements for binaural sound localisation in reverberant conditions. in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2015). IEEE, pp. 2699-2703, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 19/04/2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178461

A machine-hearing system exploiting head movements for binaural sound localisation in reverberant conditions. / May, Tobias; Ma, Ning; Wierstorf, Hagen et al.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2015). IEEE, 2015. p. 2699-2703.

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