A stochastic approach to the synthesis of a robust frequency-invariant filter-and-sum beamformer

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1407-1415

  Trucco, Andrea ^a   Crocco, Marco ^a   Repetto, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Broadband beamforming; Data independent beamforming; Frequency invariant beam pattern (FIBP); Microphone arrays; Simulated annealing (SA); Superdirective arrays

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; FIR FILTERS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

BROADBAND BEAMFORMING; DATA-INDEPENDENT BEAMFORMING; FREQUENCY-INVARIANT BEAM PATTERN (FIBP); MICROPHONE ARRAYS; SUPERDIRECTIVE ARRAYS;

ELECTRON BEAMS;

EID: 33746330741     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.876403     Document Type: Article

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