采用混响杂波比估计的有源声呐波形杂波抑制性能评价方法

浅海混响中由礁石等强散射体引起的杂波会导致有源声呐虚警、检测性能降低,合理的波形设计可有效抑制此类杂波。虽然使用多普勒敏感波形或减小波形多普勒容限已被证明能够有效抑制杂波,然而只有对当前波形的杂波抑制性能进行量化评价,才能判断当前波形的杂波抑制效果优劣,进而帮助决策是否需调整发射波形,而目前尚缺乏波形杂波抑制性能评价方法的提出。首先通过建模阐述了波形抑制杂波的原理,然后针对波形抑制杂波的性能评价问题,提出了采用混合分布统计模型对混响进行拟合及杂波比估计的方法,最后,通过湖试实验验证了该方法能够有效评价波形的杂波抑制性能。提出的方法利用混响统计特征的参数估计来反映和评价当前波形的性能,对波形体制选择和参数设计具有指导意义。     

A channel-selection criterion for suppressing reverberation in cochlear implants

Little is known about the extent to which reverberation affects speech intelligibility by cochlear implant (CI) listeners. Experiment 1 assessed CI users' performance using Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) sentences corrupted with varying degrees of reverberation. Reverberation times of 0.30, 0.60, 0.80, and 1.0 s were used. Results indicated that for all subjects tested, speech intelligibility decreased exponentially with an increase in reverberation time. A decaying-exponential model provided an excellent fit to the data. Experiment 2 evaluated (offline) a speech coding strategy for reverberation suppression using a channel-selection criterion based on the signal-to-reverberant ratio (SRR) of individual frequency channels. The SRR reflects implicitly the ratio of the energies of the signal originating from the early (and direct) reflections and the signal originating from the late reflections. Channels with SRR larger than a preset threshold were selected, while channels with SRR smaller than the threshold were zeroed out. Results in a highly reverberant scenario indicated that the proposed strategy led to substantial gains (over 60 percentage points) in speech intelligibility over the subjects' daily strategy. Further analysis indicated that the proposed channel-selection criterion reduces the temporal envelope smearing effects introduced by reverberation and also diminishes the self-masking effects responsible for flattened formants.     

A method for automatic reverberation time measurement

A method for the automatic measurement of reverberation time is described. In order to reduce the influence of flutter a curve fitting method, based on integration of the decay curve, is applied. The method allows the reverberation time to be measured without subjective interactions, both in the field and in the laboratory. A comparison between various methods shows that the described method exhibits a high degree of reliability.     

基于分数阶傅里叶变换混响抑制的目标回波检测方法

提出了一种声呐发射信号为线性调频信号时,基于分数阶傅里叶变换混响抑制的目标回波信号检测方法。通过计算混响的缓慢时变包络,对混响进行时间域的平稳化处理。对平稳化的混响信号滑动窗截取,对截取信号进行分数阶傅里叶变换,然后在分数阶傅里叶域进行滤波处理,再进行逆分数阶傅里叶变换恢复出时间域信号,最后输出该信号的能量。当滑动窗截取到目标回波信号时,窗内的混响噪声得到抑制,系统输出目标回波的能量,从而实现混响背景下的信号检测。通过计算机仿真和湖试实验结果,表明所提方法可以准确的在混响背景下检测到目标回波信号,并且在混响噪声背景条件下相比于匹配滤波器具有更好的检测性能。     

A method for detecting target echo in reverberation based on fractional Fourier transform

A method for detecting the target echo in reverberation was proposed based on fractional Fourier transform theory when the transmitted signal is linear frequency modulation signal. The slow time-varying envelope of reverberation is computed to process reverberation to be stationary. The stationary reverberation is cut into blocks using a sliding window. A narrow-band filter is applied in FrFT domain for each block and the signal is recovered through inverse FrFT. Output of the system is the energy of the recovered signal. When the target echo is included in one of the blocks, the reverberation noise is reduced, and the output is the energy of the target echo. All the simulation and lake experiment results show that the detection performance of the present method is better than that of the matched filter.     

基于人工神经网络的混响时间预测方法

在分析混响时间的各种影响因素的基础上,运用人工神经网络的BP算法,建立了厅堂混响时间的预测模型,该方法具有速度快、使用方便、精度高、可考虑的因素多等特点,具有一定的工程实用价值,有待实践的考验并逐步提高完善。     

波束域下利用角度散布特征抑制宽带混响

通过研究宽带信号的信源空间展宽特征,提出了一种宽带波束域的混响抑制方法。在有效观测角度范围内,进行密集的波束形成,将数据从阵元域转换至波束域,通过与蒙特卡洛积分得到的参考值比较,得到角度散布指数ADI。信混比越大,ADI越小。因此,设定合适的ADI阈值,去除高ADI值的成分,目标回波能够从混响背景下分离出来。该滤波器兼容于声呐现有的波束形成和信号检测流程,并且计算复杂度低。通过仿真分析了ADI与频率、带宽、信混比的关系。湖海试数据的处理结果表明了该方法能够抑制混响,并且ADI滤波器阈值选取具有容错性。     

一种频域合成房间频率响应的人工混响方法

给出了一种频域合成房间频率响应的方法用于卷积法人工混响,基于频域内房间频率响应的后期部分为高斯随机过程的假设,用自回归滑动平均模型为其自协方差函数和功率谱密度进行参数化描述,在对自回归滑动平均模型中的参数求解后,通过逆滤波得到了房间频率响应后期部分,与房间频率响应前期部分组合后经过傅里叶反变换得到完整的房间脉冲响应。仿真结果表明该方法的混响效果与镜像源法接近,明显优于反馈延迟网络法,但其计算复杂度比镜像源法低,便于实时应用。     

基于波数域直接求解法的正交加筋板声辐射研究

为了研究正交加筋板的声辐射问题,基于波数域直接求解法,建立了研究正交加筋板声辐射特性的理论模型。先利用傅里叶变换法求解周期结构的声振理论模型,得到波数域中关于结构响应的无限大耦合代数方程组,采用数值方法将其截断成有限项求解,结合稳相法便可快速获得远场辐射声压。该方法对单向和正交加筋板的预测结果与现有文献中的理论结果取得了良好的吻合,验证了理论模型的准确性和可靠性;并进一步通过数值算例研究了作用点位置,加强筋间距及平板厚度对结构声辐射特性的影响。     

基于波数域直接求解法的正交加筋板声辐射研究

为了研究正交加筋板的声辐射问题,基于波数域直接求解法,建立了研究正交加筋板声辐射特性的理论模型。先利用傅里叶变换法求解周期结构的声振理论模型,得到波数域中关于结构响应的无限大耦合代数方程组,采用数值方法将其截断成有限项求解,结合稳相法便可快速获得远场辐射声压。该方法对单向和正交加筋板的预测结果与现有文献中的理论结果取得了良好的吻合,验证了理论模型的准确性和可靠性;并进一步通过数值算例研究了作用点位置,加强筋间距及平板厚度对结构声辐射特性的影响。