Theory and design of soundfield reproduction using continuous loudspeaker concept

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 107-116

  Wu, Yan Jennifer ^a   Abhayapala, Thushara D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Array of loudspeakers; Continuous loudspeaker multichannel audio; Soundfield reproduction

Indexed keywords

APERTURE FUNCTION; ARRAY OF LOUDSPEAKERS; CONTINUOUS LOUDSPEAKER MULTICHANNEL AUDIO; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; LEAST SQUARES METHODS; MATRIX; MATRIX INVERSIONS; SOUNDFIELD REPRODUCTION; SPHERICAL ARRAY; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

LOUDSPEAKERS;

EID: 70350568745     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2005340     Document Type: Article

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