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Yang Chen¹, Guangyuan Zhang¹, Rui Wang¹

¹School of Microelectronics and Control Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213159, China.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

|February 11, 2023

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This study introduces a multimodal fusion method using a single acoustic vector sensor (AVS) to improve the estimation of sound source direction and number. The novel approach enhances multi-source distinction capabilities.

Keywords:

DOA acoustic vector sensor density peak clustering modal decomposition source counting

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Area of Science:

Acoustics
Signal Processing
Sensor Technology

Background:

Traditional methods for estimating sound source direction and number, like short-time Fourier transform and conjugate cross-spectrum, struggle with increasing numbers of sources.
A single acoustic vector sensor (AVS) has limited ability to distinguish multiple sound sources as their count rises.

Purpose of the Study:

To present a novel multimodal fusion method utilizing a single AVS to overcome the limitations of existing techniques in distinguishing multiple sound sources.
To enhance the accuracy of direction of arrival (DOA) and source number estimation in complex acoustic environments.

Main Methods:

The proposed method employs intrinsic time-scale decomposition (ITD) to decompose the AVS output into multiple modes, reducing source count per mode.
Density peak clustering (DPC) is used to estimate DOAs and source numbers within each decomposed mode.
Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) is applied to consolidate DOA information from all modes for final source counting.

Main Results:

The multimodal fusion method significantly improves the capability of a single AVS to distinguish between multiple sound sources.
Experimental results demonstrate superior performance compared to methods lacking multimodal fusion.

Conclusions:

The developed multimodal fusion technique effectively enhances the performance of a single AVS for multi-source localization and counting.
This approach offers a promising solution for complex acoustic scenarios where distinguishing numerous sound sources is challenging.