Abstract
Our goal is to acoustically localize medium inhomogeneities, (i.e., scatterers) in a very complex medium without having to resort to constructing an accurate propagation model. Instead, we use a data-based sensitivity kernel approach to characterize medium changes in this complex medium which, in this study, is a highly reverberating cavity. The efficacy of the method is confirmed in an experiment with a moving aggregate of ping-pong balls inside a fish tank of 5.6m-diameter and water depth of 1.05m in the ∼10KHz frequency regime; acoustic sources and receivers are on the periphery of the tank. Using a sensitivity kernel constructed from field data for scatterers at a sparse set of known positions, we demonstrate that we can localize other scatterers at unknown positions.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 070068 |
| Journal | Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics |
| Volume | 19 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 21st International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2013 - 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America - Montreal, QC, Canada Duration: 2 Jun 2013 → 7 Jun 2013 |