A Novel Combined System of Direction Estimation and Sound Zooming of Multiple Speakers

نویسندگان

  • Hasan KHADDOUR
  • Jiri SCHIMMEL
  • Frantisek RUND
چکیده

This article presents a new system for estimating the direction of multiple speakers and zooming the sound of one of them at a time. The proposed system is a combination of two levels; namely, sound source direction estimation, and acoustic zooming. The sound source direction estimation uses the so-called energetic analysis method for estimating the direction of multiple speakers, whereas the acoustic zooming is based on modifying the parameters of the directional audio coding (DirAC) in order to zoom the sound of a selected speaker among the others. Both listening tests and objective assessments are performed to evaluate this system using different time-frequency transforms.

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تاریخ انتشار 2015