A Neuromorphic Monaural Sound Localizer

Abstract

We describe the first single microphone sound localization system and its inspiration from theories of human monaural sound localiza(cid:173) tion. Reflections and diffractions caused by the external ear (pinna) allow humans to estimate sound source elevations using only one ear. Our single microphone localization model relies on a specially shaped reflecting structure that serves the role of the pinna. Spe(cid:173) cially designed analog VLSI circuitry uses echo-time processing to localize the sound. A CMOS integrated circuit has been designed, fabricated, and successfully demonstrated on actual sounds.

Cite

Text

Harris et al. "A Neuromorphic Monaural Sound Localizer." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1998.

Markdown

[Harris et al. "A Neuromorphic Monaural Sound Localizer." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1998.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1998/harris1998neurips-neuromorphic/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{harris1998neurips-neuromorphic,
  title     = {{A Neuromorphic Monaural Sound Localizer}},
  author    = {Harris, John G. and Pu, Chiang-Jung and Príncipe, José Carlos},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {1998},
  pages     = {692-698},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1998/harris1998neurips-neuromorphic/}
}