Cell-Based Beamforming (CE-BABE) for speech acquisition with microphone arrays

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 738-743

  Brandstein, Michael S ^a   Ward, Darren B ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MICROPHONES; REVERBERATION;

CELL BASED BEAMFORMING; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; SPEECH ACQUISITION; STANDARD SOURCE LOCALIZATION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0034320006     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.876312     Document Type: Article

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