A robust adaptive beamformer for microphone arrays with a blocking matrix using constrained adaptive filters

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2677-2684

  Hoshuyama, Osamu ^a   Sugiyama, Akihiko ^a   Hirano, Akihiro ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; REVERBERATION; TRACKING (POSITION);

ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMERS;

MICROPHONES;

EID: 0033321732     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.790650     Document Type: Article

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