Stochastic allocation strategy for irregular arrays based on geometric feature control
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Xi, Qi
Li, Runlei
Tian, Hui
Xie, Yaxi
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Irregularities in microphone distribution enrich the diversity of spatial differences to decorrelate interferences from the beamforming target. However, the large degrees of freedom of irregular placements make it difficult to analyse and optimize array performance. This article proposes fast and feasible optimal irregular array design methods with improved beamforming performance for human speech. Important geometric features are extracted to be used as the input vector of the neural network structure to determine the optimal irregular arrangements of sensors. In addition, a hyperbola design method is proposed to directly cluster microphones in the hyperbola areas to produce rich differential distance entropies and yield significant signal-to-noise ratio improvements. These methods can be easily applied to guide non-computer-aided optimal irregular array designs for human speech in acoustic scenes such as immersive cocktail party environments.
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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
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16
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5
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© The Author(s) 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Cognitive and computational psychology
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Yu, J; Xi, Q; Li, R; Tian, H; Xie, Y, Stochastic allocation strategy for irregular arrays based on geometric feature control, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2020, 16 (5)