A robust adaptive beamformer with a blocking matrix using coefficient-constrained adaptive filters

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E82-A, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 640-646

  Hoshuyama, Osamu ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive signal processing; Beam arming; Microphone array; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROPHONES; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

COEFFICIENT-CONSTRAINED ADAPTIVE FILTERS (CCAF); GENERALIZED SIDELOBE CANCELLER (GSC); MICROPHONE ARRAYS;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0032634162     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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