Wholly ICA Based Estimation on DOA of Spatio-Temporal Sources

Abstract:

A class of methods is presented for wholly estimating direction of arrival (DOA) of convolutively mixed sources in the frequency domain, which is based on independent component analysis (ICA). Convolutive mixtures of multiple sources in the spatio-temporal domain are firstly reduced to instantaneous mixtures by using the well-known short-time Fourier transformation (STFT) technique. From the time-frequency mixture in each frequency bin, one frequency respond matrix of the mixing system from sources to sensors is identified by some instantaneous ICA algorithms. Furthermore, DOAs of the multiple sources is estimated by using a whole estimating strategy. Consequently, all mixtures in total frequency bins contribute to a final estimation set, in which the source directions are shown as several direction clusters and/or local maxima. Experimental results indicate that the ICA based methods have some advantages over the well-known MUSIC (MUltiple SIgnal Classification) method not only on estimation precision of multiple source directions, but also on potential applicability under some especial conditions.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 588-589)
• Pages: 739-746
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.588-589.739
• Online since: November 2012
• Authors: Yong ping Chang, Wei Dong Jiao
• Keywords: Direction-of-Arrival (DOA), Frequency Response Identification, Independent Component Analysis (ICA), MUSIC (MUltiple Signal Classification), Whole Estimation Strategy

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