Designing superdirective microphone arrays with a frequency-invariant beam pattern

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 737-746

  Repetto, Stefania ^a,b   Trucco, Andrea ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND BEAMFORMERS; FREQUENCY INVARIANT BEAM PATTERN (FIBP); MICROPHONE ARRAYS; SUPERDIRECTIVE ARRAYS;

BEAMFORMING; FIR FILTERS; FREQUENCY BANDS; MACHINE DESIGN; SIMULATED ANNEALING; WAVELENGTH;

MICROPHONES;

EID: 33947166252     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2006.874019     Document Type: Article

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