A hybrid deconvolution approach to separate acoustic sources in multiple motion modes.

Abstract

Motion mode is defined as a characteristic motion that a group of sources follow. If there are multiple groups of sources moving in the corresponding multiple motion modes, the beamforming map for a certain group of sources will be contaminated by the leakages from the other groups of sources. The original beamforming or deconvolution approaches fail to interpret the acoustic maps, as the source leakages may be mistaken for actual sources. A hybrid deconvolution approach is proposed to restrain the source leakages, so as to separate the acoustic sources in multiple motion modes. This approach simultaneously considers all the sources in the potential motion modes, and introduces equivalent sources in the corresponding motion modes to represent the sources. The equivalence between the actual sources and the equivalent sources leads to the construction of an expanded linear matrix equation. The sources in the respective motion modes are simultaneously extracted by solving the equation. The approach is shown effective by two numerical simulations and a practical experiment on two counter-rotating sources and one static source.