This paper presents a combined microphone array and model adaptation algorithm for distant speech recognition. We aim at resolving the inconvenience of using head-mounted/hand-holding microphone in conventional speech...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780367200
This paper presents a combined microphone array and model adaptation algorithm for distant speech recognition. We aim at resolving the inconvenience of using head-mounted/hand-holding microphone in conventional speech recognizer. To improve the distant speech quality, a linear microphone array is applied and acted as robust acquisition system. We develop a time-domain coherence measure (TDCM) to precisely detect time delay of speech signals collected by different microphones. The estimated delay is adopted in a delay-and-sum beamformer for speech enhancement. Further, we adapt the speech hidden Markov models to get close to the acoustic condition of enhanced test speech for robust speech recognition. In acquisition and recognition experiments on connected Chinese digits, we find that TDCM can estimate the time delay as precise as that calculated assuming the speech source direction is known. The increase of speech sampling rate is helpful to determine time delay. Also, the incorporation of model adaptation scheme can significantly reduce the recognition errors with moderate computation overhead.
For the case of a single colocated receive antenna array and additional linear diversity (e.g. oversampling or polarization), tensor decomposition based signal separation is now well-established. For increasing the sp...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467331463;9781467331449
For the case of a single colocated receive antenna array and additional linear diversity (e.g. oversampling or polarization), tensor decomposition based signal separation is now well-established. For increasing the spatial diversity of communication systems, the use of several widely separated colocated antenna arrays has been suggested. However, for such problems no algebraic framework has been proposed. We explain that recently developed coupled tensor decompositions provide such a framework. In particular, we explain that the use of several widely separated colocated antenna arrays may lead to improved identifiability results.
In this paper, we propose the application of low-rank matrix completion techniques for array signal processing. Specifically, under the assumption that the number of targets is generally much smaller than the number o...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467300469
In this paper, we propose the application of low-rank matrix completion techniques for array signal processing. Specifically, under the assumption that the number of targets is generally much smaller than the number of antennas, the received signals can form a low-rank matrix with noise. According to the recently proposed matrix completion theory, only a subset of the entries are enough to recover the whole matrix as long as certain conditions are met, thus the implementation cost of obtaining a matrix could be reduced. We prove that the matrix formed by the received signals satisfies the condition for matrix recovery. Moreover, a uniform spatial sampling (USS) method is proposed, which is easy for hardware implementation and also could take advantage of the available number of front-end elements to achieve a better performance. We analytically prove that the probability of matrix recovery failure under the USS model is asymptotically equal to that under the Bernoulli model. Simulation results demonstrate that the matrix recovery performance under the USS model is very close to that using the uniform model.
Impact localization is one of the major concerns in maintenance of aircraft structures built from composites. A lot of different techniques like acoustic emission, optimization technique based on system are nowadays i...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783037852002
Impact localization is one of the major concerns in maintenance of aircraft structures built from composites. A lot of different techniques like acoustic emission, optimization technique based on system are nowadays investigated to identify impact location. But the method to identify impact position in complex composite structure with high accuracy in real time has not been completely established. In the present work, a new efficient method is proposed for identifying impact location in real and complex composite structure based on array signal processing and Lamb waves. There are two steps in the proposed method. The first step is to estimate the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of impact source using continuous wavelet transform (CWT) and array signal processing;the second step is to estimate the distance between impact source and the coordinate origin based on propagation characteristic of Lamb wave and CWT. The composite panel with stepped thickness of a real and complex aeronautical tank is used to verify the present methodology. The result shows that the present method may identify impact location fast and accurately.
Blind source separation is now a well known problem. Various methods have been proposed for instantaneous and convolutive mixtures of sources. Conventional antenna arrayprocessing techniques are based on the use of s...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0818680067
Blind source separation is now a well known problem. Various methods have been proposed for instantaneous and convolutive mixtures of sources. Conventional antenna arrayprocessing techniques are based on the use of second order statistics but rest on restrictive assumptions. Thus, when a priori informations about the propagation or the geometry of the array are not available, the model can be generalized to a blind sources separation model. It supposes the statistical independence of the sources and their non-gaussianity. In this paper, we focus on the narrow band source separation problem embedded in wide band jammers. We show that JADE algorithm [1] made for instantaneous mixture is still valid in a wide band context where only the signals of interest are narrow-band. We also prove that a wide band signal tends to occupy all the degrees of freedom of the covariance matrix and modifies the signal subspace dimension.
A new algorithm, DFT Beamspace TLS-ESPRIT with structure weighting is presented. The proposed algorithm provides closed-form estimates of the directions-of-arrival (DOAs) of signals impinging on a Uniform Linear array...
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ISBN:
(纸本)078037827X
A new algorithm, DFT Beamspace TLS-ESPRIT with structure weighting is presented. The proposed algorithm provides closed-form estimates of the directions-of-arrival (DOAs) of signals impinging on a Uniform Linear array (ULA). DFT Beamspace TLS-ESPRIT with structure weighting outperforms DFT Beamspace TLS-ESPRIT in terms of estimation accuracy, mainly at small and mean values of SNR, and conserves the low computational complexity of the latter algorithm. Improvement of performance is conditioned by exploiting structure (row) weighting method. Distinctions in realization of structure weighting in beamspace as compared to element space are noted. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by computer simulation, verifying its statistical efficiency.
A new partial discharges multi-targets localization method is presented in this paper, which is based on array signal processing. Two ultrasonic sensor arrays are located on the inner wall of the transformer tank and ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780780393110
A new partial discharges multi-targets localization method is presented in this paper, which is based on array signal processing. Two ultrasonic sensor arrays are located on the inner wall of the transformer tank and detect the ultrasonic signal emitted by the partial discharge sources. Spatial spectrum estimation technique is used in analyzing the signal characteristic information (number of signals, direction-of-arrivals et al) and the number of partial discharge signal estimation, direction-of-arrival estimation and distance estimation are accomplished. The performance of localizations is given by computer simulations. It shows that the method processes with high resolution and good estimated accuracy and can effectively estimate the location parameter of multiple partial discharge sources in transformer.
Real-time imaging of dynamical movement or stress distribution across living tissues by physiological internal or clinical external stress forces could be a promising toot for clinical diagnosis as visualized palpatio...
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Real-time imaging of dynamical movement or stress distribution across living tissues by physiological internal or clinical external stress forces could be a promising toot for clinical diagnosis as visualized palpation. However,. the transversal components of tissue local motion across an ultrasonic beam cannot be obtained utilizing conventional beam scanning. We proposed the combined algorithm of phase sensitive spatial cross-correlation between two sequential speckle echo frames and signalprocessing for a synthetic aperture of an array transducer which realizes a uniform spatial resolution through, these echo frames. The two-dimensional local motion vector can be directly calculated from the sequentially estimated local phase changes by successive irradiation of different point sources. The accuracy and the statistical variance of the estimated two-dimensional displacement were investigated for the simulated random tissue and the received speckle echo frames from it. The obtained results showed the excellent performance of the proposed algorithm, both for local values and for the entire distribution of estimated displacement vectors throughout the measured medium.
Adaptive array signal processing is widely used in radar, communication, sonar, navigation and other signalprocessing applications. Practical experimental verification is important to evaluate the performance of arra...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509048281
Adaptive array signal processing is widely used in radar, communication, sonar, navigation and other signalprocessing applications. Practical experimental verification is important to evaluate the performance of array signal processing methods. However, the conventional experimental verification for adaptive array signal processing are often conducted with massive radio frequency equipments, which leads to high cost and huge complexity. Therefore, it is necessary to construct an experimental demonstration system with low cost and high flexibility, which can conveniently verify the performance of adaptive array signal processing methods. In this paper, an experimental adaptive array signal processing demonstration system by utilizing the microphone array is proposed, and corresponding experiments of DOA estimation and adaptive beamforming are conducted based on the proposed microphone array system in different environment. Compared with traditional radio frequency system, it is found that the designed system can reduce the experimental cost and complexity of adaptive array signal processing verification.
The fact that most of high-accuracy positioning and distributed timing services, including safety-critical operations, rely on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) has raised the concern of possible denial-of-se...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479914814
The fact that most of high-accuracy positioning and distributed timing services, including safety-critical operations, rely on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) has raised the concern of possible denial-of-service situations. Complementary to time-and frequency-domain mitigation techniques, it is well known that antenna-array based receivers can benefit from spatial domain processing and effectively mitigate unintentional and intentional Radio Frequency Interferences (RFIs). In this work, we propose a software-based GNSS receiver architecture that implements a real-time, array-based signal acquisition algorithm based on the Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test, combined with a null-steering spatial filter for signal tracking, showing its RFI rejection capabilities.
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