Robust near-field adaptive beamforming with distance discrimination

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 478-488

  Zheng, Yahong Rosa ^a   Goubran, Rafik A ^b   El Tanany, Mohamed ^b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dereverberation; Distance discrimination; Interference suppression; Microphone array; Near field beamforming; Regionally constrained beamforming; Robust adaptive beamforming; Robustness against location errors

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARRAYS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DISCRIMINATORS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCIES; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DEREVERBERATION; DISTANCE DISCRIMINATION; MICROPHONE ARRAY; NEAR-FIELD BEAMFORMING; REGIONALLY CONSTRAINED BEAMFORMING; ROBUST ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; ROBUSTNESS AGAINST LOCATION ERRORS;

MICROPHONES;

EID: 4344641436     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2004.832982     Document Type: Article

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