Microphone array shape calibration in diffuse noise fields

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 666-670

  McCowan, Iain ^a,b   Lincoln, Mike ^c   Himawan, Ivan ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic arrays; Array signal processing; Calibration; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ARRAY GEOMETRIES; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIFFUSE NOISE; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; SHAPE CALIBRATIONS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTICS; MICROPHONES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 64849103491     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.911428     Document Type: Article

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