TY - JOUR
T1 - Microphone Subset Selection for MVDR Beamformer Based Noise Reduction
AU - Zhang, Jie
AU - Chepuri, Sundeep Prabhakar
AU - Hendriks, Richard Christian
AU - Heusdens, Richard
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2022-06-08
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): OSR-2015-Sensors-2700
Acknowledgements: This work was supported by the China Scholarship Council and Circuits and Systems (CAS) Group, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. The work of S. P. Chepuri was supported by the ASPIRE Project (Project 14926 within the STW OTP program), which is funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the KAUST-MIT-TUD consortium under Grant OSR-2015-Sensors-2700.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.
PY - 2017/12/22
Y1 - 2017/12/22
N2 - In large-scale wireless acoustic sensor networks (WASNs), many of the sensors will only have a marginal contribution to a certain estimation task. Involving all sensors increases the energy budget unnecessarily and decreases the lifetime of the WASN. Using microphone subset selection, also termed as sensor selection, the most informative sensors can be chosen from a set of candidate sensors to achieve a prescribed inference performance. In this paper, we consider microphone subset selection for minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer based noise reduction. The best subset of sensors is determined by minimizing the transmission cost while constraining the output noise power (or signal-to-noise ratio). Assuming the statistical information on correlation matrices of the sensor measurements is available, the sensor selection problem for this model-driven scheme is first solved by utilizing convex optimization techniques. In addition, to avoid estimating the statistics related to all the candidate sensors beforehand, we also propose a data-driven approach to select the best subset using a greedy strategy. The performance of the greedy algorithm converges to that of the model-driven method, while it displays advantages in dynamic scenarios as well as on computational complexity. Compared to a sparse MVDR or radius-based beamformer, experiments show that the proposed methods can guarantee the desired performance with significantly less transmission costs.
AB - In large-scale wireless acoustic sensor networks (WASNs), many of the sensors will only have a marginal contribution to a certain estimation task. Involving all sensors increases the energy budget unnecessarily and decreases the lifetime of the WASN. Using microphone subset selection, also termed as sensor selection, the most informative sensors can be chosen from a set of candidate sensors to achieve a prescribed inference performance. In this paper, we consider microphone subset selection for minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer based noise reduction. The best subset of sensors is determined by minimizing the transmission cost while constraining the output noise power (or signal-to-noise ratio). Assuming the statistical information on correlation matrices of the sensor measurements is available, the sensor selection problem for this model-driven scheme is first solved by utilizing convex optimization techniques. In addition, to avoid estimating the statistics related to all the candidate sensors beforehand, we also propose a data-driven approach to select the best subset using a greedy strategy. The performance of the greedy algorithm converges to that of the model-driven method, while it displays advantages in dynamic scenarios as well as on computational complexity. Compared to a sparse MVDR or radius-based beamformer, experiments show that the proposed methods can guarantee the desired performance with significantly less transmission costs.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/678749
UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8234698/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85039775307&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TASLP.2017.2786544
DO - 10.1109/TASLP.2017.2786544
M3 - Article
SN - 2329-9290
VL - 26
SP - 550
EP - 563
JO - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
JF - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
IS - 3
ER -