Maximum directivity beamformer for spherical-aperture microphones

IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 153-156

  Agmon, Morag ^a   Rafaely, Boaz ^a   Tabrikian, Joseph ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aperture weighting; Beamforming; Spatial aliasing; Spherical aperture microphone

Indexed keywords

ALIASING; APERTURE WEIGHTING; BEAM FORMERS; BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUE; DIRECTIVITY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; OPTIMAL BEAMFORMING; REALIZABILITY; SOUND ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ALIASING; SPATIAL SAMPLING; SPHERICAL MICROPHONE ARRAY; SPHERICAL SYMMETRY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; BEAMFORMING; MICROPHONES; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPHERES;

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 77950138060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASPAA.2009.5346470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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