Effect of noise and transducer variability on the performance of circular microphone arrays

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 371-384

  Poletti, M A ^a,b  

^a AES ^*  (New Zealand)

^b CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR ARRAYS; DOWNSAMPLING TECHNIQUES; LOUDSPEAKER REPRODUCTION SYSTEMS; SOUND SOURCES;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; LOUDSPEAKERS; SOUND REPRODUCTION; TELECONFERENCING;

MICROPHONES;

EID: 33646446587     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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