Acoustic Sources Imaging by Partial Swarm Optimization in 3D

Acoustic imaging implemented by microphone arrays has been widely used in variety of areas. Aiming at overcoming the drawbacks of the exhaustive search processes for some commonly used deconvolution methods, the Partial Swarm Optimization (PSO) combined with a 3D microphone array is introduced in this work to localize the acoustic sources. Based on the analysis result of the simulated data, the proposed method presents the potential to map the acoustic sources in 3D with acceptable computation time.