In this work a simple and effective method is proposed in order to detect time intervals where only a single source is active (‘solo intervals’), in multiple microphone multiple source settings commonly encountered in audio applications, such as live sound reinforcement. The proposed method is based on the short term energy ratios between all available microphone signals and a single threshold value is used to determine if and which source is solely active. The method is computationally efficient and results indicate that it is accurate and fairly robust with respect to reverberation time and amount of source interference.

Authors: Kokkinis, Elias K.; Reiss, Joshua; Mourjopoulos, John
Affiliations: Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; University of Patras, Patras, Greece(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 130 (May 2011) Paper Number: 8328
Publication Date: May 13, 2011 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Posters: Soundfield Analysis
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