Self-calibration-based robust near-field adaptive beamforming for microphone arrays

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 267-271

  Ser, Wee ^a   Chen, Huawei ^a   Yu, Zhu Liang ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

microphone arrays; Near field broadband beamforming; robust adaptive beamforming

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

MICROPHONE ARRAYS; NEAR-FIELD ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; NEAR-FIELD BROADBAND BEAMFORMING; ROBUST ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; SELF-CALIBRATION TECHNIQUE;

MICROPHONES;

EID: 34147164433     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2006.886878     Document Type: Article

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