A Bayesian Sparse Inference Approach in near-field wideband aeroacoustic imaging

Recently the improved deconvolution methods using sparse regularization achieve high spatial resolution in aeroacoustic imaging in the low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), but sparse prior and model parameters should be optimized to obtain super resolution and be robust to sparsity constraint. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian Sparse Inference Approach in Aeroacoustic Imaging (BSIAAI) to reconstruct both source powers and positions in poor SNR cases, and simultaneously estimate background noise and model parameters. Double Exponential prior model is selected for source spatial distribution and hyper-parameters are estimated by Joint Maximized A Posterior criterion and Bayesian Expectation and Minimization algorithm. On simulated and real data, proposed approach is well applied for near-field wideband monopole and extended source imaging. Comparing to several classical methods, proposed approach is robust to noise, super resolution, wide dynamic range, but parameters like source number or SNR are not needed.