Beamformer performance with acoustic vector sensors in air

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 608-619

  Lockwood, Michael E ^a   Jones, Douglas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VECTOR SENSORS (AVS); SENSING PARTICLE VELOCITY; SPEECH SIGNALS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; AIR; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MICROPHONES; NOISE ABATEMENT; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PROCESSING; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT;

ACOUSTICS; AIR; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NOISE; ORTHOGONAL ROTATION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; VELOCITY;

AIR; ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 30844454691     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2139073     Document Type: Article

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