Optimal design of nearfield wideband beamformers robust against errors in microphone array characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1950-1959

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

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Microphone arrays; Minimax design; Nearfield wideband beamformers; Robustness; Second order cone programming (SOCP); Worst case performance optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DESIGN; MICROPHONES; OPTIMIZATION;

MICROPHONE ARRAY; NEARFIELD WIDEBAND BEAMFORMER; SECOND-ORDER CONE PROGRAMMING;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 34648831874     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2007.904667     Document Type: Article

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