In this paper we study the suitability and performance of four major speech denoising algorithms as GCC weighting functions and discuss the role of the microphones' frequency response on the localization estimates. An evaluation is made with the humanoid robot Nao. Moving away from simulated environments, we look at the performance of sound source localization under different in-system and ambient noise conditions. We also present a TDOA/GCC based sound source localization method for real-world humanoid robots which was used for our experiments. This method addresses the robot's shape influence by utilizing a pre-measured set of TDOAs.
Athanasopoulos, G, Dekens, T, Brouckxon, H & Verhelst, W 2012, The Effect of Speech Denoising Algorithms on Sound Source Localization for Humanoid Robots. in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and their Applications (ISSPA 2012). IEEE, pp. 369-374, 11th International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and their Applications (ISSPA 2012), Montreal, Canada, 2/07/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSPA.2012.6310546
Athanasopoulos, G., Dekens, T., Brouckxon, H., & Verhelst, W. (2012). The Effect of Speech Denoising Algorithms on Sound Source Localization for Humanoid Robots. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and their Applications (ISSPA 2012) (pp. 369-374). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSPA.2012.6310546
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title = "The Effect of Speech Denoising Algorithms on Sound Source Localization for Humanoid Robots",
abstract = "In this paper we study the suitability and performance of four major speech denoising algorithms as GCC weighting functions and discuss the role of the microphones' frequency response on the localization estimates. An evaluation is made with the humanoid robot Nao. Moving away from simulated environments, we look at the performance of sound source localization under different in-system and ambient noise conditions. We also present a TDOA/GCC based sound source localization method for real-world humanoid robots which was used for our experiments. This method addresses the robot's shape influence by utilizing a pre-measured set of TDOAs.",
keywords = "microphone arrays, sound source localization, time delay of arrival (TDOA), generalized cross correlation (GCC), speech denoising, Nao",
author = "Georgios Athanasopoulos and Tomas Dekens and Henk Brouckxon and Werner Verhelst",
year = "2012",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1109/ISSPA.2012.6310546",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-4673-0381-1",
pages = "369--374",
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publisher = "IEEE",
note = "11th International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and their Applications (ISSPA 2012) ; Conference date: 02-07-2012 Through 05-07-2012",
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