Superdirective beamforming robust against microphone mismatch

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 617-631

  Doclo, Simon ^a   Moonen, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Microphone arrays; Microphone mismatch; Robust design; Superdirective beamformer

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PROCEDURES; DIRECTIVITY FACTORS; DIRECTIVITY PATTERNS; DISTORTION ENERGIES; HIGH-DIRECTIVITY; HIGHLY SENSITIVES; MEAN DEVIATIONS; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MICROPHONE CHARACTERISTICS; NOISE GAINS; PARAMETER RANGES; ROBUST DESIGN; SUPERDIRECTIVE BEAMFORMER; WORST CASE;

BEAMFORMING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION;

MICROPHONES;

EID: 62749169329     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.881676     Document Type: Article

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