Adaptive Estimation of Transfer Functions for Sound Localization Using Stereo Earphone-Microphone Combination

摘要

A sound localization method based on the adaptive estimation of inverse Ear Canal Transfer Functions (ECTFs) using a stereo earphone-microphone combination is proposed. This method can adaptivcly obtain the individual's transfer functions to fit the listener in real-time. We evaluate our sound localization method by studying the relationship between the estimation error of inverse ECTFs and the auditory sound localization score perceived by several listener. As a result, we clarified that the estimation error required of inverse ECTFs are less than ― 10dB. In addition, we describe two adaptive inverse filtering methods in order to realize real-time signal processing implementation using affine projection algorithm and discusses the convergence time of an adaptive inverse filter to determine the initial value. It is clarified that method 2 based on copy weights with initial value is more effective than method 1 with filtered-x algorithm, in terms of convergence, if the initial value is the average of many listeners' impulse responses for our sound localization method.