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Acoustic source identification using a Generalized Weighted Inverse Beamforming technique Flavio Presezniak a,f,n , Paulo A.G. Zavala b,c , Gunther Steenackers a,e , Karl Janssens d , Jose R.F. Arruda c , Wim Desmet b , Patrick Guillaume a a Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium b K.U. Leuven, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Celestijnenlaan 300b, 3001 Leuven, Belgium c Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil d LMS International, Interleuvenlaan 68, 3001 Leuven, Belgium e Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen, Paardenmarkt 92, B-2000 Antwerpen, Belgium f Volvo do Brasil, 3P-PD, Av. Juscelino K de Oliveira, 2600, 81260-900 Curitiba, Brazil article info Article history: Received 24 August 2010 Received in revised form 23 November 2011 Accepted 15 June 2012 Available online 11 July 2012 Keywords: Acoustic Inverse problem Optimization Source identification abstract In the last years, acoustic source identification has gained special attention, mainly due to new environmental norms, urbanization problems and more demanding acoustic comfort expectation of consumers. From the current methods, beamforming techniques are of common use, since normally demands affordable data acquisition effort, while producing clear source identification in most of the applications. In order to improve the source identification quality, this work presents a method, based on the Generalized Inverse Beamforming, that uses a weighted pseudo-inverse approach and an optimiza- tion procedure, called Weighted Generalized Inverse Beamforming. To validate this method, a simple case of two compact sources in close vicinity in coherent radiation was investigated by numerical and experimental assessment. Weighted generalized inverse results are compared to the ones obtained by the conventional beamforming, MUltiple Signal Classification, and Generalized Inverse Beamforming. At the end, the advantages of the proposed method are outlined together with the computational effort increase compared to the Generalized Inverse Beamforming. & 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction In the past years the reduction in the noise pollution has received special attention, due to, among else, new environmental regulations, urbanization problems and more demanding acoustic comfort expectation of consumers (transportation, housing, houseware, etc.). For this purpose, the identification of acoustic source characteristics, such as source location and amplitude, has an important role. The acoustic source identification can be obtained using several methods, such as acoustic holography, acoustic beamforming and also by the solution of the inverse problem. Those methods start with the definition of a target grid, that corresponds to the locations where the sources will be searched. A model for the transfer function between the target grid and the measurement grid is then defined, based on the adopted reference source type. Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ymssp Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 0888-3270/$ - see front matter & 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2012.06.019 n Corresponding author. Tel.: þ55 4133174276. E-mail address: [email protected] (F. Presezniak). Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 32 (2012) 349–358

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Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

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Acoustic source identification using a Generalized Weighted InverseBeamforming technique

Flavio Presezniak a,f,n, Paulo A.G. Zavala b,c, Gunther Steenackers a,e, Karl Janssens d,Jose R.F. Arruda c, Wim Desmet b, Patrick Guillaume a

a Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgiumb K.U. Leuven, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Celestijnenlaan 300b, 3001 Leuven, Belgiumc Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazild LMS International, Interleuvenlaan 68, 3001 Leuven, Belgiume Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen, Paardenmarkt 92, B-2000 Antwerpen, Belgiumf Volvo do Brasil, 3P-PD, Av. Juscelino K de Oliveira, 2600, 81260-900 Curitiba, Brazil

a r t i c l e i n f o

Article history:

Received 24 August 2010

Received in revised form

23 November 2011

Accepted 15 June 2012Available online 11 July 2012

Keywords:

Acoustic

Inverse problem

Optimization

Source identification

70/$ - see front matter & 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A

x.doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2012.06.019

esponding author. Tel.: þ55 4133174276.

ail address: [email protected] (F. Presez

a b s t r a c t

In the last years, acoustic source identification has gained special attention, mainly due

to new environmental norms, urbanization problems and more demanding acoustic

comfort expectation of consumers. From the current methods, beamforming techniques

are of common use, since normally demands affordable data acquisition effort, while

producing clear source identification in most of the applications. In order to improve

the source identification quality, this work presents a method, based on the Generalized

Inverse Beamforming, that uses a weighted pseudo-inverse approach and an optimiza-

tion procedure, called Weighted Generalized Inverse Beamforming. To validate this

method, a simple case of two compact sources in close vicinity in coherent radiation

was investigated by numerical and experimental assessment. Weighted generalized

inverse results are compared to the ones obtained by the conventional beamforming,

MUltiple Signal Classification, and Generalized Inverse Beamforming. At the end, the

advantages of the proposed method are outlined together with the computational effort

increase compared to the Generalized Inverse Beamforming.

& 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

1. Introduction

In the past years the reduction in the noise pollution has received special attention, due to, among else, newenvironmental regulations, urbanization problems and more demanding acoustic comfort expectation of consumers(transportation, housing, houseware, etc.). For this purpose, the identification of acoustic source characteristics, such assource location and amplitude, has an important role.

The acoustic source identification can be obtained using several methods, such as acoustic holography, acousticbeamforming and also by the solution of the inverse problem. Those methods start with the definition of a target grid, thatcorresponds to the locations where the sources will be searched. A model for the transfer function between the target gridand the measurement grid is then defined, based on the adopted reference source type.

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niak).

Nomenclature

H transfer functionI identity matrixW weighting matrixok discrete angular frequencyq source pressureP source pressure vectorU matrix containing the left singular valuesV matrix containing the right singular valuesS diagonal matrix containing the singular

valuess singular valuesb regularization parametero angular frequencyk conditional numberK cost functionCSM cross spectral matrixJ � Jp p-norm

Ue eigenvector matrixL eigenvalue matrixPi ith eigenmodeui ith eigenvectorli ith eigenvalueqi ith source amplitude vectori

ffiffiffiffiffiffiffi�1p

Superscripts

þ pseudo-inverseH Hermitian transpose

Subscripts

W weighted matrixk relative to the kth natural frequencyR regularized matrix

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The main problem of the classical techniques is the low spatial resolution. Methods such as CLEAN [1] and DAMAS [2]have been proposed to improve this map resolution. The CLEAN method proved to be sensitive to noisy signals, especiallycoherent noise. To avoid this problem, deconvolution techniques treating coherent sources have been proposed such asDAMAS. In this method, the uncorrelated source distribution is extracted by iteratively deconvolving the map generated byconventional beamforming with the point spread function, which represents a monopole source at the target grid. Thistechnique has a substantial computational cost, even though it has improved in the past years.

A method called Generalized Inverse Beamforming is proposed by Suzuki [3]. In this method, the cross spectral matrixis decomposed into its eigenstructure, and the response is represented by eigenmodes, each one related to a coherentsource distribution. This source distribution is calculated by the inversion of the transfer function matrix, built based on acandidate source type. In the case that this transfer function matrix is ill-conditioned, regularization techniques, such asTikhonov’s regularization, can be used. Recently, the regularization strategy was optimized and an automated process forthe definition of the regularization factor developed [4].

To improve solution of general inverse problems, the weighted pseudo-inverse technique [5] is widely adopted. Thismethod pre- and post-multiply the transfer function matrix by a diagonal weight matrix. The weight values are thenoptimized in order to minimize the number of relevant sources.

In this paper, a new technique is proposed to increase the resolution on the GIB, the Generalized Weighted InverseBeamforming (GWIB). This technique can put more emphasis on some transfer function matrix columns, or sources,increasing the dynamic range of the identification.

In the following sections, the weighted pseudo-inverse will be presented, as well as the proposed Generalized WeightedInverse Beamforming technique.

A simple example is used to illustrate the advantages of this method to perform source identification on closely spacedcompact source. Numerical and experimental assessment are presented and the results with GWIB are compared to theconventional beamforming, MUltiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) and GIB results. The conclusion and remarks arepresented at the end.

2. General principles

2.1. Generalized Inverse Beamforming

The Generalized Inverse Beamforming (GIB) [3] similarly as the conventional beamforming technique, starts with thecross spectral matrix (CSM), which, in this case is decomposed as

C¼/P � PHS¼UeLUHe , ð1Þ

where Ue and L are, respectively, the eigenvector and the diagonal eigenvalue matrix, P is the matrix of measured acousticpressure spectra, the superscript H indicates the Hermitian transpose and / �S indicates an average signal. The ith‘eigenmode’ is defined as [3]

Pi ¼ffiffiffiffili

pui, ð2Þ

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where li is the ith eigenvalue and ui is the ith eigenvector. Each eigenmode represent a coherent response, and theobjective is to recover the source distribution that produce each eigenmode.

Similar to the other techniques, it is necessary to define a target grid, in which the sources are searched. The result atthe microphones is a combination of the sources present at each grid point. This is necessary to identify the transferfunction H between the target grid points and the measurement points. Considering that the microphone signal is given bythe eigenmode, Eq. (2), the source estimator will be given by

Pi ¼Hqi, ð3Þ

where qi is a vector representing the source amplitude over the target domain, Pi is the ith ‘eigenmode’ and H is thetransfer function matrix. The total source amplitude q is related by the qi amplitude by

q¼X

qi ð4Þ

and the acoustic pressure P related by the Pi by

P¼X

Pi: ð5Þ

To solve Eq. (3), for an underdetermined (more possible source positions then measurements) and overdeterminedsystem of equations, with the Generalized Inverse Beamforming, the following equations are used [3]:

qi ¼HHðHHH

Þ�1Pi ð6Þ

and

qi ¼ ðHHHÞ�1HHPi: ð7Þ

The Generalized Inverse Beamforming considers that the target grid can be reduced iteratively by discarding thelocations with lower magnitude on each iteration. This is an interesting approach, focusing on the locations with a higherprobability to find the sources. However, the grid points close to the true source location will also have a participation onthe mapping.

2.2. The weighted pseudo-inverse

Because HðokÞ is rank deficient, it is not possible to find a unique solution for the source, but, an infinite amount ofsolutions exist. By using a weighted pseudo-inverse, an infinite set of source vectors are obtained, depending on W. Thus,the weighted version of a rectangular N0 � Ni complex valued matrix H is defined. The following definition is used:

ðHÞþW ¼WðHWÞþ , ð8Þ

where W 2 RN0�N0 is a regular square weighting matrix and ‘þ ’ indicates the pseudo-inverse. In the sequel, only diagonalweighting matrices, W ¼ diagðw1,w2, . . . ,wN0

Þ, will be considered. So, according to the definition in Eq. (8), every column ofH is first weighted with a w-factor before being pseudo-inverted. In that way, it is possible to put more emphasis on somecolumns (inputs) of H. Note that if W equals the identity matrix I

ðHÞþI ¼ IðHIÞþ ¼Hþ ð9Þ

or, if H (and W) is of full rank (i.e., rankðHÞ ¼minðNi,N0ÞÞ

ðHÞþw ¼WðHWÞþ ¼WW þHþ ¼Hþ ð10Þ

the weighted pseudo-inverse reduces to a classical pseudo-inverse. Hence, it only makes sense to use a weighted pseudo-inverse when H is rank deficient (i.e., when rankðHÞ ¼minðNi,N0Þ). In that case, the weighted pseudo-inverse, ðHÞþW , differsfrom Hþ and depends on the weighting matrix W as well as on the truncation level used (i.e., the number of singularvalues considered during the computation of the pseudo-inverse).

This weighting matrix right-multiplies the Frequency Response Function (FRF) matrix, HðokÞW , allowing to put moreemphasis (or weight) on some locations (inputs) while other locations, corresponding with zero (or small) w values, areminimized.

In the procedure used in this paper, a Tikhonov regularization will be applied to calculate the pseudo-inverseðHðokÞWÞ

þ . This is done with the objective to reduce the ratio between largest, smax, and the smallest, smin, singular value,called the condition number. Therefore, the condition number is defined as

kðHÞ ¼ smax=smin: ð11Þ

Following Nelson and Yoon [6], let us assume that small deviations dP in P produce small deviations dq in the solution q,and then

HðqþdqÞ ¼ ðPþdPÞ: ð12Þ

For two matrices A and B, a property of the 2-norm states that JABJrJAJJBJ. Applying this property to the smalldeviations, dq¼HþdP, it is possible to verify that JdqJrJHþ JJdPJ and that JPJrJHJJqJ. Therefore, it is possible to write

JdqJJPJrJHJJHþ JJdPJJqJ, ð13Þ

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with the definition of the condition number

dq

qrkðHÞ JdPJ

P: ð14Þ

The above equation shows the importance of the condition number k in the solution. It is possible to verify that smallperturbations in P, dP, will be amplified if the H matrix has a large condition number. In practice, extraneous noiseintroduced into the measurements of the acoustic pressure will have a large impact on the solution for the acoustic sourcestrength if the matrix is badly conditioned, with a large condition number k. Thus, the Tikhonov regularization starts in theform

ðHðokÞWÞþ¼ VS�1Uþ , ð15Þ

where V and U are the matrices containing the right and left singular vectors and S is a diagonal matrix containing thesingular values.

Applying the regularization technique to Eq. (17), one can write the inverse weighted matrix as

ðHðokÞWÞþR ¼ VS�1

R Uþ , ð16Þ

where the subscript R denotes the regularized matrix and where the regularized singular value matrix is given by

S�1R ¼

s1=ðs21þbÞ 0 � � � 0

0 s2=ðs22þbÞ � � � 0

^ ^ ^ ^

0 0 � � � sN=ðs2NþbÞ

266664

377775: ð17Þ

2.3. Optimization procedure

The diagonal weighting matrix W is determined in such a way that the ‘p-norm of the source is minimized

KðWÞ ¼XNf

k ¼ 1

Jqðok,WÞJpp, ð18Þ

with a p value close to zero (e.g., 0.01) and JPJpp ¼ ð

PN0

i ¼ 1 9Pi9pÞð1=pÞ.

Note that for p-0, the K(W) converges to the number of entries in Pðok,WÞ that are different from zero. Hence,minimizing Eq. (18) corresponds to making as many as possible entries of Pðok,WÞ equal to zero, i.e., finding the solutionrequiring the lowest possible amount of locations.

It can be remembered that all these solutions must satisfy the input–output relationship

PðokÞ ¼HðokÞ � qðokÞ ð19Þ

very well (depends on the used tolerance, which is related to the amount of disturbing noise on the responsemeasurement). Indeed

HðokÞqðok,WÞ ¼HðokÞWðHðokÞWÞþPðokÞ � PðokÞ: ð20Þ

This means that the weighting matrix W cannot be a zero matrix, in order to be coherent to this condition.Because the ‘p-norm is differentiable w.r.t. W, the cost function, Eq. (18), can be minimized by means of classical

optimization algorithm (e.g., Gauss–Newton, Levenberg–Marquardt). Note that cost function, Eq. (18), can be written as aquadratic cost function

KðWÞ ¼1

p

XNf

k ¼ 1

XN0

i ¼ 1

9Riðok,WÞ92, ð21Þ

with

Riðok,WÞ ¼ 9qiðok,WÞ9p=2: ð22Þ

This quadratic cost function can be minimized using the Gauss–Newton optimization algorithm. Furthermore, ananalytical expression for the Jacobian matrix J¼ @R=@w, i.e., the derivative of the residue vector R¼ ½R1, . . . ,RN0

�T w.r.t. theweighting vector, w¼ ½w1, . . . ,wN0

�T , is available.One can show that the entries Jij ¼ @Ri=@wj of the Jacobian matrix equal

@Ri

@wj¼

P

29qi9

P=2�2ReðqiÞ Re

@qi

@wj

� �þ ImðqiÞ Im

@qi

@wj

� �� �ð23Þ

and that the derivatives @qi=@wj ¼ ½@q=@w�ij are given by

@q

@w¼ ðI�WðHWÞþHÞW þ

½q�, ð24Þ

with ½q� ¼ diagðqÞ.

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Since the Jacobian matrix can be computed analytically using Eqs. (23) and (24) (instead of using time-consuming finitedifference approximations), a significant reduction in the computation time is obtained.

3. Generalized Weighted Inverse Beamforming

The introduction of the weighted pseudo-inverse can increase the dynamic range of the Generalized InverseBeamforming (GIB). With this, the solution of Eq. (3) is given by

qi ¼ ðHÞþW Pi, ð25Þ

where qi represents a source amplitude vector, H represents the transfer function matrix, Pi represents the ith eigenmodeand the subscript W represents the weight matrix, minimizing the possible source locations.

The proposed technique, weighted pseudo-inverse applied to the Generalized Inverse Beamforming, increases thesource identification resolution while the reduced target grid over the algorithm iterations also reduces the weightoptimization effort per iteration.

Thus, the GWIB method can be summarized as follows:

1.

Generate the cross spectral matrix, according to Eq. (1). 2. Select the number of modes to be used. 3. Generate the corresponding eigenmodes Pi. 4. Select a target grid and calculate the transfer function matrix H. 5. Calculate the amplitude distribution according to Eq. (25). 6. Eliminate the locations with the smallest amplitudes and calculate a new transfer function matrix H. 7. Repeat items 3–5 until the size of the target grid is reduced to a specific value that guarantee a clear source region or

until when some convergence criteria is reached.

4. Numerical example

In this section a numerical example will be presented to show the advantages of this method. The example consists oftwo monopole sources radiating at 1 kHz and separated by 1.5 wavelength distance. The array is adopted with 30microphones distributed over a 6-arm spiral configuration and 2 m aperture. The array distance to the source plane is2.5 m. The target grid region is chosen as three wavelengths from the target center, with a rectangular grid with 1=4 of awavelength spacing and 25 points, as indicated in Fig. 1.

A source model in the frequency domain is used and the transfer function is given by

P¼f

4p9r9e�ik9r9, ð26Þ

where f represents the acoustic source amplitude.In this paper, four identification methods are compared: conventional beamforming, MUltiple SIgnal Classification

(MUSIC), Generalized Inverse Beamforming (GIB) and the proposed Generalized Weighted Inverse Beamforming (GWIB).The GIB result is shown after 32 iterations using 10% truncation, this means that after each iteration, 10% of the possible

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Inverse Beamforming.

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source locations are discarded. In the GWIB method, the optimal result is obtained after 15 iterations. The results for all theidentification methods are shown in Fig. 2.

All the plots are shown in a 10 dB range. From Fig. 2 it is possible to draw the following conclusions:

All the methods converged to the source areas. � The conventional beamforming technique correctly identified the zone, but was not able to identify both sources

separately.

� The MUSIC method presented results comparable to the conventional beamforming method but with a better

dynamic range.

� The Generalized Inverse Beamforming (GIB) showed a better result, identifying both sources. � The Generalized Weighted Inverse Beamforming (GWIB) improved the GIB results, especially when it refers to the

dynamic range.

4.1. Influence of noise

In order to verify the noise influence in the GWIB method, simulations with a noisy signal were performed. For this, theacoustic pressure was corrupted with a Gaussian noise with zero mean and variance s2 obtained by [7]

S

N¼ 20 log10

1

J

9P92

s2

" #1=2

: ð27Þ

Since for this case J represents the number of measurement points, the S/N ratio is related to an average acousticpressure value at a specific frequency. For example, for a 0 dB S/N ratio, the noise will have the same amplitude as theaverage pressure value. Thus, the S/N will increase for points closer to the source and decrease for points further the sourcewhere the signal level is lower, as is possible to visualize in Fig. 3.

Fig. 3. Signal and applied noise.

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]

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Fig. 4. Numerical results with 0 dB SNR for (a) GWIB and (b) GIB.

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This figure was generated for a source placed at the center. Is possible to observe that at the center, where the signalstrength is more important its level is higher then the noise information, while for the points in the edge the noiseamplitude is more important then the signal. The results is shown in Fig. 4.

From these figures one can conclude that, even with highly noisy signal, the GWIB still can separate both sources, whilethe GIB method focus only in one source and other ghost sources are also visualized.

5. Experimental results

To validate the proposed methodology, an experiment was performed using the same configuration as the numericalexample. A picture from the setup is shown in Fig. 5.

As adopted in the numerical example, two compact sources radiate an in-phase sine wave at 1 kHz with a distance of1.5 of a wavelength from each other. The measurements used a simultaneous acquisition with 20.48 kHz samplingfrequency. Blocks with 1024 time samples per microphone are used for each acquisition. The target grid region is chosen asthree wavelengths from the target center, with a grid spacing of 1/4 of wavelength. The results are shown in Fig. 6.

The Generalized Inverse Beamforming (GIB) result is obtained after 32 iterations using 10% truncation. In theGeneralized Weighted Inverse Beamforming (GWIB) method, the optimal results are obtained after 15 iterations, butwith the optimization procedure, the computational time is still almost the same, 1.526 s for the GIB versus 2.081 s forthe GWIB.

Experimental results using GIB are very similar to the numerical prediction, and the method was able to capture theindividual source locations, in contrast to the conventional beamforming and the MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC)that presented one single source center. The beamforming and the MUSIC results are almost the same but the MUSICalgorithm indicates a source center more to the right, possibly steered to a slightly louder speaker.

The maps indicate some level differences in the source radiations which led the GIB to keep more source grid terms onthe side of the higher emission. The GWIB was able to capture individual source locations with substantial increase indynamic range and no clear influence of the higher level of one loudspeaker.

To better show the convergence of the proposed method, Fig. 7 shows the results for 1, 5, 10 and 15 iterations.

Fig. 5. Experimental setup.

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The progression along iterations for the GWIB shows that sources identification changed over the iterations, and eventhat one of the sources was not clearly present in the first iteration. It was detected in subsequent iterations, showing therobust performance on the proposed method to separate the source centers in coherent radiation.

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6. Conclusions

This paper presents a new beamforming technique based on the Generalized Inverse Beamforming but using aweighted pseudo-inverse approach and an optimization procedure for the weight definition. The objective of thisoptimization is to minimize the number of sources with a higher sensitivity to generate the response. This method, calledGeneralized Weighted Inverse Beamforming (GWIB), increases the dynamic range of the GIB, making it possible to identifyclosely spaced sources, as close as 1.5 wavelength in the example treated, supported by numerical and experimentalinvestigation.

The results show that this new method converges faster than the Generalized Inverse Beamforming, but thecomputational effort is somewhat equivalent, since an optimization procedure is required for the weight definition ateach iteration.

Thus, considering the computational effort and the obtained results, the advantage of this proposed method, GWIB, isevident, since it improves significantly the dynamic range on the identification with approximately the same processingeffort as the GIB.

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