Localization of acoustic source on solids: A linear predictive coding based algorithm for location template matching

Location template matching (LTM) is a source localization technique in solids that is robust to dispersion and multipath. This is possible since LTM compares the input with a database of signals made at known locations. With this in place, it is possible to employ LTM in situations where the surface of interest takes an irregular shape. However, one of the existing LTM approaches uses crosscorrelation to compare the input and the database. It should be noted that if any two of the known locations stored in the database are too close, the cross-correlation method may have difficulties differentiating between signals generated from the neighboring points. To address this, we propose an algorithm which employs the linear predictive coding (LPC) that takes into account the dominant frequencies of a received signal. Using this approach, we show that the proposed algorithm is able to improve LTM's source localization accuracy under a real environment in the context of source localization for a touch interface.