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Main Authors: Obo, Hirotaka, Fujita, Yuki, Ishii, Masahisa, Moriyama, Hideki, Tsuchiya, Ryota, Ohashi, Yuta, Seki, Kotaro
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05355
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author Obo, Hirotaka
Fujita, Yuki
Ishii, Masahisa
Moriyama, Hideki
Tsuchiya, Ryota
Ohashi, Yuta
Seki, Kotaro
author_facet Obo, Hirotaka
Fujita, Yuki
Ishii, Masahisa
Moriyama, Hideki
Tsuchiya, Ryota
Ohashi, Yuta
Seki, Kotaro
contents This paper proposes a novel generalized cross-correlation (GCC) method, termed GCC-MSIF, to improve time difference of arrival (TDOA) estimation accuracy in noisy environments. Conventional GCC methods often suffer from performance degradation under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions, particularly when the signal bandwidth is unknown. GCC-MSIF introduces a "mean signal" estimated from multi-channel inputs and an "inverse filter" to virtually reconstruct the source signal, enabling adaptive suppression of out-of-band noise. Numerical simulations simulating a small-scale array demonstrate that GCC-MSIF significantly outperforms conventional methods, such as GCC-PHAT and GCC-SCOT, in low SNR regions and achieves robustness comparable to or exceeding the maximum likelihood (GCC-ML) method. Furthermore, the estimation accuracy improves scalably with the number of array elements. These results suggest that GCC-MSIF is a promising solution for robust passive localization in practical blind environments.
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spellingShingle Noise Suppression for Time Difference of Arrival: Performance Evaluation of a Generalized Cross-Correlation Method Using Mean Signal and Inverse Filter
Obo, Hirotaka
Fujita, Yuki
Ishii, Masahisa
Moriyama, Hideki
Tsuchiya, Ryota
Ohashi, Yuta
Seki, Kotaro
Signal Processing
Audio and Speech Processing
This paper proposes a novel generalized cross-correlation (GCC) method, termed GCC-MSIF, to improve time difference of arrival (TDOA) estimation accuracy in noisy environments. Conventional GCC methods often suffer from performance degradation under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions, particularly when the signal bandwidth is unknown. GCC-MSIF introduces a "mean signal" estimated from multi-channel inputs and an "inverse filter" to virtually reconstruct the source signal, enabling adaptive suppression of out-of-band noise. Numerical simulations simulating a small-scale array demonstrate that GCC-MSIF significantly outperforms conventional methods, such as GCC-PHAT and GCC-SCOT, in low SNR regions and achieves robustness comparable to or exceeding the maximum likelihood (GCC-ML) method. Furthermore, the estimation accuracy improves scalably with the number of array elements. These results suggest that GCC-MSIF is a promising solution for robust passive localization in practical blind environments.
title Noise Suppression for Time Difference of Arrival: Performance Evaluation of a Generalized Cross-Correlation Method Using Mean Signal and Inverse Filter
topic Signal Processing
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05355