Design of far-field and near-field broadband beamformers using eigenfilters

Signal Processing

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2641-2673

  Doclo, Simon ^a   Moonen, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Broadband beamformer; Eigenfilter; Far field; Near field N; TLS error

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; PRODUCT DESIGN; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

BROADBAND BEAMFORMERS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0142095024     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2003.07.005     Document Type: Article

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