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On the use of geometric and harmonic means with the generalized cross-correlation in the time domain to improve noise
Thomas Padois1, Olivier Doutres2, Franck Sgard1
1Institut de Recherche Robert-Sauvé en Santé et en Sécurité du Travail, Montréal, Quebec H3A 3C2, Canada.
Abstract:
Microphone array techniques are an efficient tool to detect acoustic source positions. The delay and sum beamforming is the standard method. In the time domain, the generalized cross-correlation can be used to compute the noise source map. This technique is based on the arithmetic mean of the spatial likelihood functions. In this study, the classical arithmetic mean is replaced by the more standard generalized mean. The noise source maps provide by the arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means are compared in the case of numerical and experimental data obtained in a reverberant room. The geometric and harmonic means provide the best noise source maps with no side lobes and a better source level estimation.
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