A real-world recording database for ad hoc microphone arrays

William S. Woods; Elior Hadad; Ivo Merks; Buye Xu; Sharon Gannot; Tao Zhang

doi:10.1109/waspaa.2015.7336915

A real-world recording database for ad hoc microphone arrays

William S. Woods, Elior Hadad, Ivo Merks, Buye Xu, Sharon Gannot, Tao Zhang

Bar-Ilan University - The Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering

Starkey Hearing Technologies

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Abstract

We report on a recently-recorded database for use in processing of ad hoc microphone constellations. Twenty-four microphones were positioned in various locations at a central table in a large room, and their outputs were recorded while 4 target talkers at the table both read from a list of sentences in a constrained way and also maintained a natural conversation for several minutes. This was done in the quiet and in the presence of 8, 24, and 56 other simultaneous talkers surrounding the central table at various distances. We also recorded without the 4 target talkers active in each of these conditions, and used a loudspeaker to measure impulse responses to the microphones from various positions in the room. We provide details of the recording setup and demonstrate use of this database via an application of linearly constrained minimum variance beam-forming. The database will become available to researchers in the field.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479974504
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/waspaa.2015.7336915
State	Published - 24 Nov 2015
Event	IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015 - New Paltz, United States Duration: 18 Oct 2015 → 21 Oct 2015

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Name	2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015

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Conference	IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Paltz
Period	18/10/15 → 21/10/15

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beamforming
distributed microphone arrays
hearing AIDS
recording database

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Woods, W. S., Hadad, E., Merks, I., Xu, B., Gannot, S., & Zhang, T. (2015). A real-world recording database for ad hoc microphone arrays. In 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015 Article 7336915 (2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/waspaa.2015.7336915

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Woods, WS, Hadad, E, Merks, I, Xu, B, Gannot, S & Zhang, T 2015, A real-world recording database for ad hoc microphone arrays. in 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015., 7336915, 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015, New Paltz, United States, 18/10/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/waspaa.2015.7336915

A real-world recording database for ad hoc microphone arrays. / Woods, William S.; Hadad, Elior; Merks, Ivo et al.
2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. 7336915 (2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015).

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