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Learning an interpretable end-to-end network for real-time acoustic beamforming

Liang, Hao ; Zhou, Guanxing ; Tu, Xiaotong LU orcid ; Jakobsson, Andreas LU orcid ; Ding, Xinghao and Huang, Yue (2024) In Journal of Sound and Vibration 591.
Abstract

Recently, many forms of audio industrial applications, such as sound monitoring and source localization, have begun exploiting smart multi-modal devices equipped with a microphone array. Regrettably, model-based methods are often difficult to employ for such devices due to their high computational complexity, as well as the difficulty of appropriately selecting the user-determined parameters. As an alternative, one may use deep network-based methods, but these are often difficult to generalize, nor can they generate the desired beamforming map directly. In this paper, a computationally efficient acoustic beamforming algorithm is proposed, which may be unrolled to form a model-based deep learning network for real-time imaging, here... (More)

Recently, many forms of audio industrial applications, such as sound monitoring and source localization, have begun exploiting smart multi-modal devices equipped with a microphone array. Regrettably, model-based methods are often difficult to employ for such devices due to their high computational complexity, as well as the difficulty of appropriately selecting the user-determined parameters. As an alternative, one may use deep network-based methods, but these are often difficult to generalize, nor can they generate the desired beamforming map directly. In this paper, a computationally efficient acoustic beamforming algorithm is proposed, which may be unrolled to form a model-based deep learning network for real-time imaging, here termed the DAMAS-FISTA-Net. By exploiting the natural structure of an acoustic beamformer, the proposed network inherits the physical knowledge of the acoustic system, and thus learns the underlying physical properties of the propagation. As a result, all the network parameters may be learned end-to-end, guided by a model-based prior using back-propagation. Notably, the proposed network enables an excellent interpretability and the ability of being able to process the raw data directly. Extensive numerical experiments using both simulated and real-world data illustrate the preferable performance of the DAMAS-FISTA-Net as compared to alternative approaches.

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Acoustic beamforming, Acoustic imaging, Array signal processing, Interpretable network, Model-based deep learning, Source localization
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Journal of Sound and Vibration
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591
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118620
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Academic Press
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0022-460X
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10.1016/j.jsv.2024.118620
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  author       = {{Liang, Hao and Zhou, Guanxing and Tu, Xiaotong and Jakobsson, Andreas and Ding, Xinghao and Huang, Yue}},
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  keywords     = {{Acoustic beamforming; Acoustic imaging; Array signal processing; Interpretable network; Model-based deep learning; Source localization}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Academic Press}},
  series       = {{Journal of Sound and Vibration}},
  title        = {{Learning an interpretable end-to-end network for real-time acoustic beamforming}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2024.118620}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.jsv.2024.118620}},
  volume       = {{591}},
  year         = {{2024}},
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