Abstract
Accurate sound source localization at medium and low frequencies remains challenging due to limited spatial resolution and strong noise interference. Conventional ℓ 1 -norm-based sparse reconstruction methods are sensitive to measurement noise and tend to underestimate strong source amplitudes. This paper proposes a novel ℓ 1 –Cauchy hybrid regularization framework for sound field reconstruction. The ℓ 1 norm enforces global spatial sparsity, while the Cauchy penalty mitigates amplitude bias through its heavy-tailed prior, enabling a synergistic balance between high resolution and reconstruction robustness. Numerical simulations and Monte Carlo analyses demonstrate that the proposed method achieves superior reconstruction accuracy in the medium- and low-frequency range, with enhanced robustness to variations in measurement distance and signal-to-noise ratio. Quantitative comparisons confirm that the ℓ 1 –Cauchy approach outperforms Tikhonov regularization, wideband acoustic holography (WBH), and fast iterative Cauchy thresholding (FICTA), demonstrating its potential for practical noise source identification.
Funding Information
  • Project of Scientific and Technological Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission (KJQN202400834)
  • Scientific Research Foundation of Chongqing Technology and Business University (2356002)

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