Envelope and Wavelet Transform for Sound Localisation at Low Sampling Rates in Wireless Sensor Networks.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Sensors Volume 2012, Article ID 680383, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/680383 Research Article Envelope and Wavelet Transform for Sound Localisation at Low Sampling Rates in Wireless Sensor Networks O. M. Bouzid, G. Y. Tian, J. Neasham, and B. Sharif School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK Correspondence should be addressed to O. M. Bouzid, o.m.bouzid@ncl.ac.uk Received 15 November 2011; Revised 12 January 2012; Accepted 15 January 2012 Academic Editor: Shenfang Yuan Copyright © 2012 O. M. Bouzid et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. High sampling frequencies in acoustic wireless sensor network (AWSN) are required to achieve precise sound localisation. But they are also mean analysis time and memory intensive (i.e., huge data to be processed and more memory space to be occupied which form a burden on the nodes limited resources). Decreasing sampling rates below Nyquist criterion in acoustic source localisation (ASL) applications requires development of the existing time delay estimation techniques in order to overcome the challenge of low time resolution. This work proposes using envelope and wavelet transform to enhance the resolution of the received signals through the combination of different time-frequency contents. Enhanced signals are processed using cross-correlation in conjunction with a parabolic fit interpolation to calculate the time delay accurately. Experimental results show that using this technique, estimation accuracy was improved by almost a factor of 5 in the case of using 4.8 kH