Dereverberation performance of rigid and open spherical microphone arrays: Theory & simulation

2011 Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, HSCMA'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 145-150

  Jarrett, Daniel P ^a   Habets, Emanuël A P ^b   Thomas, Mark R P ^a   Gaubitch, Nikolay D ^a   Naylor, Patrick A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dereverberation; microphone array

Indexed keywords

BEAM FORMERS; DELAY AND SUMS; DEREVERBERATION; FREE SPACE; LINEAR MICROPHONEARRAY; MICROPHONE ARRAY; OPEN ARRAYS; SIMULATION RESULT; SIMULATION TOOL; SPHERICAL ARRAY; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; SPHERICAL MICROPHONE ARRAY; THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MICROPHONES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPHERES;

EID: 79961135469     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HSCMA.2011.5942382     Document Type: Conference Paper

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