Teramoto K., Khan M.

This paper presents an autonomous directivity microphone system based on the newly proposed spatio-temporal blind source separation. The blind source separation principally uses no a priori knowledge about parameters of convolution, filtering and mixing. In the simplest case of the blind source separation problems, observed mixed signals are linear combinations of unknown mutually statistically independent, zero-mean source signals. The blind signal separation algorithm utilizes the linearity among the four signals: (1) the sound pressure, (2)x, (3)y, and (4)z-directional particle velocities, all of which are governed by the wave equation and the equation of motion. The proposed method, therefore, has an ability to simplify the convolution blind source separation problems into the instantaneous blind source separation over the spatio-temporal gradient space. Several acoustical experiments are performed with the particle velocity microphone array successfully instead of sound pressure microphones.