A probability model with Variational Bayesian Inference for the complex interference suppression in the acoustic array measurement
Résumé
The microphone array is widely used in acoustics as a non-contact measurement tool, which
can obtain multi-dimensional information about the sound source, such as spatial, time, and
frequency. The microphone array is not always used in an ideal anechoic chamber environment,
making the sound source signal contaminated with the background interference. The separation
of the sound source signal from the complex background interference is very challenging,
especially when arrays are used in wind tunnel measurements. A probability model on the time–
frequency matrix is constructed in this paper to address this issue. The background interference
is constructed by the Gaussian mixture model to fit its complex probability distributions
adaptively. The sound source signal is constructed as a low-rank model according to its
correlation characteristics on the microphones. The distributions of parameters involved in the
low-rank and Gaussian mixture model are estimated through variational Bayesian inference,
which can realize the separation of the sound source signal from the complex background
interference. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by the numerical simulation
and the DLR closed wind tunnel experimental. The robustness and the effectiveness of extracting
the sound source signal from the complex background interference are also verified.