A steered response power iterative method for high-accuracy acoustic source localization

Source localization using the steered response power (SRP) usually requires a costly grid-search procedure. To address this issue, a modified SRP algorithm was recently introduced, providing improved robustness when using coarser spatial grids. In this letter, an iterative method based on the modified SRP is presented. A coarse spatial grid is initially evaluated with the modified SRP, selecting the point with the highest accumulated value. Then, its corresponding volume is iteratively decomposed by using a finer spatial grid. Experiments have shown that this method provides almost the same accuracy as the fine-grid search with a substantial reduction of functional evaluations. (C) 2013 Acoustical Society of America.The Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and FEDER supported this work under the projects TEC2012-37945-C02-01/02.Martí Guerola, A.; Cobos Serrano, M.; López Monfort, JJ.; Escolano Carrasco, J. (2013). A steered response power iterative method for high-accuracy acoustic source localization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 134(4):2627-2630. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.482088526272630134