The effect of spectro-temporal integration in a probabilistic model for robust acoustic localization

Authors

  • Tobias May Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Human Technology Interaction, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  • Steven van de Par Philips Research, High Tech Campus 36, NL-5656 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  • Armin Kohlrausch Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Human Technology Interaction, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Philips Research, High Tech Campus 36, NL-5656 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Abstract

A robust acoustic localization model will be presented, which is based on the supervised learning of azimuth-dependent binaural feature maps consisting of interaural time differences (ITD) and interaural level differences (ILD). Motivated by the robust localization performance of the human auditory system, the associated peripheral stage is used in this study as a front-end for binaural cue extraction. Multi-conditional training is performed to take into account the variability of the binaural features which results from the combination of multiple sources, the effect of reverberation and changes in the source/receiver con guration. One way of accumulating evidence of possible sound source locations is to combine information across auditory channels. Alternatively, integrating evidence across groups of time-frequency (T-F) units, so called fragments, which are believed to belong to a single source, was reported to signi cantly improve ITD-based localization performance [Christensen et al., Proc. of Interspeech, 2769-2772 (2007)]. Instead of accumulating the localization cue directly, the proposed model combines likelihoods, taking into account the uncertainty which is associated with the azimuth estimate of a particular T-F unit. Various procedures of controlling the spectro-temporal integration will be discussed and the in uence on sound source localization will be presented.

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2009-12-15

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May, T., van de Par, S., & Kohlrausch, A. (2009). The effect of spectro-temporal integration in a probabilistic model for robust acoustic localization. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research, 2, 125–134. Retrieved from https://proceedings.isaar.eu/index.php/isaarproc/article/view/2009-13

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Vol. 2 (2009): Binaural Processing and Spatial Hearing

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2009/2. Perceptual measures and models of spatial hearing

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