Flexible and optimal design of spherical microphone arrays for beamforming

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 702-714

  Li, Zhiyun ^a,b   Duraiswami, Ramani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Leica   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Beampattern; Directivity index (DI); Optimization; Quadrature; Spherical microphone array; White noise gain (WNG)

Indexed keywords

BEAM FORMERS; BEAMPATTERN; DIRECTIVITY; DIRECTIVITY INDEX (DI); EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATIONS; HIGHER ORDERS; MINIMAL EFFECTS; OPTIMAL APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIMAL DESIGNS; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; QUADRATURE; REAL-WORLD SYSTEMS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SPHERICAL MICROPHONE ARRAY; SPHERICAL SURFACES;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MICROPHONES; OPTIMIZATION; SPHERES; WHITE NOISE;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 34948844018     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.876764     Document Type: Article

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