Active control of sound inside a sphere via control of the acoustic pressure at the boundary surface

Here we investigate the practical feasibility of performing soundfield reproduction throughout a three-dimensional area by controlling the acoustic pressure measured at the boundary surface of the volume in question. The main aim is to obtain quantitative data showing what performances a practical implementation of this strategy is likely to yield. In particular, the influence of two main limitations is studied, namely the spatial aliasing and the resonance problems occurring at the eigenfrequencies associated with the internal Dirichlet problem. The strategy studied is first approached by performing numerical simulations, and then in experiments involving active noise cancellation inside a sphere in an anechoic environment. The results show that noise can be efficiently cancelled everywhere inside the sphere in a wide frequency range, in the case of both pure tones and broadband noise, including cases where the wavelength is similar to the diameter of the sphere. Excellent agreement was observed between the results of the simulations and the measurements. This method can be expected to yield similar performances when it is used to reproduce soundfields.Comment: 28 pages de text

A Noise-Robust Method with Smoothed \ell_1/\ell_2 Regularization for Sparse Moving-Source Mapping

The method described here performs blind deconvolution of the beamforming output in the frequency domain. To provide accurate blind deconvolution, sparsity priors are introduced with a smooth \ell_1/\ell_2 regularization term. As the mean of the noise in the power spectrum domain is dependent on its variance in the time domain, the proposed method includes a variance estimation step, which allows more robust blind deconvolution. Validation of the method on both simulated and real data, and of its performance, are compared with two well-known methods from the literature: the deconvolution approach for the mapping of acoustic sources, and sound density modeling

Efficient inversion methods in underwater acoustics

This dissertation describes efficient methods developed and implemented for source localization and sound speed and bottom depth estimation using sound propagation in the ocean. The proposed inversion techniques are based on the linearization of the generally non-linear inverse problem of parameter estimation in underwater acoustics. These techniques take into account properties of the ocean environment and are accurate in their estimation results without being prohibitively computationally intensive. For the inversion, select ray paths are taken into account: the direct, first surface bounce, and first bottom bounce. Ray travel time derivatives with respect to parameters that affect path arrival times are obtained analytically. These derivatives and a first order expansion are then used to find estimates of unknown parameters through replica and true paths; replica paths are generated using ray theory for underwater sound propagation and true paths are identified from measured time series. The linearization scheme works efficiently for the estimation of geometric parameters such as the source and receiver location coordinates and the depth of the water column. It is also successful in estimating the sound speed profile in the ocean using empirical orthogonal functions. In this work, the linearization inversion technique is applied to marine mammal tracking, and it is also used with real data collected during the Haro Strait experiment for source and receiver localization. For the Haro Strait data, inversion using linearization is also compared to matched-field processing, which estimates source location and geoacoustic parameters through a full field matching approach

압축센싱 기반 접근법을 이용한 수중음향 소음원의 위치 추정 기법 연구

학위논문 (박사) -- 서울대학교 대학원 : 공과대학 조선해양공학과, 2021. 2. 성우제.삼차원 음향 소음원의 위치추정은 잠수체, 산란체, 캐비테이션 소음원의 분석을 위해 필수적인 과정이다. 전통적인 빔형성 기법은 강인한 위치 추정 결과를 제공하나, 하나의 소음원의 위치만을 구분할 수 있는 저해상도의 결과를 보인다. 고해상도의 위치 추정 결과를 얻기 위해 최근 압축센싱 기반의 위치 추정 기법들이 사용되어 지고 있다. 압축센싱 기법은 희소성을 가진 신호의 획득,처리,복원에 효과적인 방법이며 영상처리, 수중음향, 최적화 문제 등에서 널리 활용되어지고 있다. 수중 소음원의 위치 추정을 위하여 압축센싱 기밥의 기법들이 적용되어 왔으며 전통적인 빔형성 기법에 비하여 해상도 측면에서 더 나은 성능을 보여주었다. 하지만 이러한 해상도 측면의 성능 향상에도 불구하고 압축센싱 기반의 방법은 여전히 문제점들을 가지고 있다. 첫번째, 압축센싱 기법은 전통적인 빔형성 기법에 비해 수치 연산 과정이 불안전성을 가진다. 비록 고해상도의 성능을 보여주나 압축센싱 기법은 수치해석 과정에서 불안정한 모습을 보여주며, 안정적인 복원을 저해한다. 두번째, 기저불일치로 인한 오차가 정확한 소음원의 위치 추정을 저해한다. 게다가 3차원 소음원의 위치 추정 문제는 이러한 기저 불일치를 해결할 수 있는 기법이 아직까지 개발되지 못하였다. 본 논문은 기존의 압축센싱 기반의 위치 추정 기법이 가지는 문제점을 파악하고 3차원 위치 추정 문제를 다룰 수 있는 향상된 압축센싱 기법을 소개한다. 탐색 공간 사이의 높은 상관관계로 인하여 발생하는 해의 불안정성을 해결아기 위하여 ``다중주파수 상관 처리기법"을 소개하고, 3차원 위치 추정문제에서 기저불일치 문제를 해결할 수 있는 ``유동 탐색 격자 기법"을 소개한다. 제안된 기법은 전통적인 빔형성 기법에 비하여 정확한 위치 추정 결과를 제공하며 실험 데이터를 통한 위치 추정결과를 이용하여 이러한 주장을 뒷받침하였다. 본 연구에서는 수중음향 소음원의 3차원 위치 추정 문제를 중점적으로 다루었으나, 제안된 기법은 소나 및 레이더, 음향 소음원 위치 추정 문제에도 효과적으로 적용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.Three-dimensional acoustic localization is an essential process to analyze the underwater sound sources such as submarine, scatterer, marine cavitation. Traditional beamforming processors provide robust localization results, however, the results show a low-resolution result which only reveals one dominant source location. In order to obtain the high resolution localization results, compressive sensing(CS) based approaches have been used recently. CS technique is an effective way for acquiring, processing, reconstructing the sparse signal and has wide applicability to many research fields such as image processing, underwater acoustics and optimization problems. For localizing the underwater acoustic sources, CS-based approaches have been adopted in many research fields and have shown better localization performance compared to the traditional beamforming processors in terms of resolution. Despite the performance improvement in resolution, there are still problems that need to be resolved when using the CS-based method. First, the CS-based method does not appear to be robust compared with the traditional beamforming processors. CS-based method provides high-resolution results, however, it suffers from computational instability which hinders the stable reconstruction. Second, basis mismatch error hindrances estimating the exact source locations. Moreover, there is no basis mismatch estimation technique applicable to 3D source localization problem. This dissertation points out the limitation of conventional CS-based localization method and introduces the advanced CS-based localization method which deals with 3D source localization problem. The ``coherent multiple-frequency processing" is introduced to overcome the instability of solution induced by high correlation of spatial grids and ``flexible searching-grid technique" is introduced to solve the basis mismatch problem which is developed for 3D source localization problem. The suggested techniques provide more accurate localization results compared to traditional beamforming processors or conventional CS-based beamforming processors and the arguments are backed with actual experimental data which was conducted in a cavitation tunnel. Though underwater acoustic source localization problems are presented in this dissertation, the proposed technique can be extended to many research fields, such as radar detection, sonar detection, ultrasound imaging.1 Introduction 2 1.1 Issue 1 : Computational Stability 4 1.2 Issue 2 : Basis Mismatch 5 1.3 Organization of the Dissertation 5 2 CS techniques for three-dimensional source localization 9 2.1 Compressive Sensing (CS) 9 2.2 Block-Sparse Compressive Sensing (BSCS) 11 2.3 Sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) 12 2.4 Off-Grid Sparse Bayesian Inference (OGSBI) 14 3 3D CS-based source localization method using multiple-frequency components 18 3.1 Introduction 18 3.2 Block-sparse Compressive Sensing for Incipient Tip Vortex Cavitation Localization 24 3.2.1 System framework for incipient tip vortex cavitation localization 24 3.2.2 Incoherent multiple-frequency localization with compressive sensing 26 3.2.3 Coherent multiple-frequency localization with block-sparse compressive sensing 28 3.3 Localization Results for Incipient TVC 32 3.3.1 Transducer source experiment 33 3.3.2 Incipient TVC Noise Source Experiment 36 3.4 Conclusion 41 3.5 Acknowledgments 43 4 3D CS-based source localization method by reducing the basis mismatch error 48 4.1 Introduction 48 4.2 Off grid system framework for 3D source localization 50 4.2.1 System framework for 3-dimensional off gird source localization 50 4.2.2 Coherent multiple-frequency localization with block-sparse Bayesian learning technique 53 4.2.3 3-dimensional off grid source localization method 55 4.3 Simulation and Experiment Results 62 4.4 Conclusion 65 5 Summary 70 Abstract (In Korean) 73Docto

Sparsity driven ultrasound imaging

An image formation framework for ultrasound imaging from synthetic transducer arrays based on sparsity-driven regularization functionals using single-frequency Fourier domain data is proposed. The framework involves the use of a physics-based forward model of the ultrasound observation process, the formulation of image formation as the solution of an associated optimization problem, and the solution of that problem through efficient numerical algorithms. The sparsity-driven, model-based approach estimates a complex-valued reflectivity field and preserves physical features in the scene while suppressing spurious artifacts. It also provides robust reconstructions in the case of sparse and reduced observation apertures. The effectiveness of the proposed imaging strategy is demonstrated using experimental data

Multichannel Speech Separation and Enhancement Using the Convolutive Transfer Function

This paper addresses the problem of speech separation and enhancement from multichannel convolutive and noisy mixtures, \emph{assuming known mixing filters}. We propose to perform the speech separation and enhancement task in the short-time Fourier transform domain, using the convolutive transfer function (CTF) approximation. Compared to time-domain filters, CTF has much less taps, consequently it has less near-common zeros among channels and less computational complexity. The work proposes three speech-source recovery methods, namely: i) the multichannel inverse filtering method, i.e. the multiple input/output inverse theorem (MINT), is exploited in the CTF domain, and for the multi-source case, ii) a beamforming-like multichannel inverse filtering method applying single source MINT and using power minimization, which is suitable whenever the source CTFs are not all known, and iii) a constrained Lasso method, where the sources are recovered by minimizing the $\ell_1$-norm to impose their spectral sparsity, with the constraint that the $\ell_2$-norm fitting cost, between the microphone signals and the mixing model involving the unknown source signals, is less than a tolerance. The noise can be reduced by setting a tolerance onto the noise power. Experiments under various acoustic conditions are carried out to evaluate the three proposed methods. The comparison between them as well as with the baseline methods is presented.Comment: Submitted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processin