Microphone-array localization error estimation with application to sensor placement

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3807-3816

  Brandstein, Michael S ^a   Adcock, John E ^a   Silverman, Harvey F ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MICROPHONE; PHONATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029952426     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.414998     Document Type: Article

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