FRL Research Audio

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Blind Localization Of Early Room Reflections Using Phase Aligned Spatial Correlation

This paper presents PHALCOR (PHase ALigned CORrelation), a novel method for blind estimation of the DOA and delay of early reflections that overcomes the limitations of existing solutions. PHALCOR is based on a signal model in which the reflection signals are explicitly modeled as delayed and scaled copies of the direct sound.

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Optimizing the Spatial Decomposition Method for Binaural Rendering

Through simulations and measurements, we explore optimal values for the various processing parameters such as array size and temporal processing window size and compare the results of TDOA and PIV DOA estimation. We introduce spatial clustering of reflections as a post-processing step, which reduces the un-natural direction-of-arrival spread of late reflections at the expense of spatial distortion for consecutive reflections.

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The importance of time-frequency averaging for binaural speaker localization in reverberant environments

A common approach to overcoming the effect of reverberation in speaker localization is to identify the time-frequency (TF) bins in which the direct path is dominant, and then to use only these bins for estimation. Various direct-path dominance (DPD) tests have been proposed for identifying the direct-path bins. However, for a two-microphone binaural array, tests that do not employ averaging over TF bins seem to fail. In this paper, this anomaly is studied by comparing two DPD tests, in which only one has been designed to employ averaging over TF bins.