Design of robust superdirective beamformers as a convex optimization problem

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 77-80

  Mabande, Edwin ^a   Schad, Adrian ^a   Kellermann, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Sequential quadratic programming; Superdirective beamformer; White noise gain

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; BEAMFORMING; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

BEAMFORMER DESIGN; BEAMFORMERS; BROAD-BAND DATA; CONSTANT BEAMWIDTH; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; LEAST SQUARE; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SUPERDIRECTIVE BEAMFORMER;

WHITE NOISE;

EID: 70349464898     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icassp.2009.4959524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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