This paper addresses the problem of speaker tracking in a noisy and reverberant environment using time delay of arrival (TDOA) measurements at spatially distributed microphone pairs. The tracking problem is posed within a state-space estimation framework, and models are developed for the speaker motion and the likelihood of the speaker location in the light of the TDOA measurements. The resulti...

A novel algorithm for source location by utilizing the time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements of a signal received at spatially separated sensors is proposed. The algorithm is based on quadratic constraint total least-squares (QC-TLS) method and gives an explicit solution. The total least-squares method is a generalized data fitting method that is appropriate for cases when the system m...

We present two novel approaches for the problem of selfcalibration of network nodes using only TDOA when both receivers and transmitters are unsynchronized. We consider the previously unsolved minimum problem of far field localization in three dimensions, which is to locate four receivers by the signals of nine unknown transmitters, for which we assume that they originate from far away. The fir...

The problem of position estimation from Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) measurements occurs in a range of applications from wireless communication networks to electronic warfare positioning. Correlation analysis of the transmitted signal to two receivers gives rise to one hyperbolic function. With more than two receivers, we can compute more hyperbolic functions, which ideally intersect in on...

In this manuscript we consider the well-established problem of TDOA-based source localization and propose a comprehensive analysis of its solutions for arbitrary sensor measurements and placements. More specifically, we define the TDOA map from the physical space of source locations to the space of range measurements (TDOAs), in the specific case of three receivers in 2D space. We then study th...

Monitoring using GNSS technology has played a very important role in tracking all manner of items, ranging from dangerous firearms to cash, and to the tracking of stolen vehicles. In different environments there will be times when the surroundings pose problems to the GNSS receiver, such as in the case where shipping containers are being stacked on top of each other, thus limiting the view of t...

This paper discusses an ultra-wideband (UW) tracking system design effort for Mini-AERCam (Autonomous Extra-vehicular Robotic Camera), a free-flying video camera system under development at NASA Johnson Space Center for aid in surveillance around the International Space Station (ISS). UWB technology is exploited to implement the tracking system due to its properties, such as high data rate, fin...

Abstract To achieve more accurate measurements of the MS location, it is possible to integrate many kinds of schemes. In this paper we combine time difference of arrival (TDOA) from three base stations (BSs) and angle of arrival (AOA) information at the serving BS to give location estimation of the MS. Based on the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments and the knowledge of NLOS error statistics...

This paper provides analysis of identification of acoustic transfer functions between two microphones and investigation of modified application from two-microphone adaptive noise cancelling and beamforming methods. Based on this, we will perform real-time performance comparisons to obtain the best solution to speech enhancement and noise cancellation. Experiments are processed by software imple...

Determining the spatial position of a speaker finds a growing interest in video conference scenario where automated camera steering and tracking are required. As a preliminary step for the localization, microphone array can be used to extract the time difference of arrival (TDOA) of the speech signal. The direction of arrival of the speech signal is then determined by the relative time delay be...