Optimal real-weighted beamforming with application to linear and spherical arrays

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2575-2585

  Tourbabin, V ^a   Agmon, M ^a   Rafaely, B ^a   Tabrikian, J ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; beamforming; linear arrays; microphone arrays; spherical arrays

Indexed keywords

ARRAY DESIGN; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; BEAM FORMERS; BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; DIGITAL SIGNAL-PROCESSING METHOD; DIRECTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; GRATING LOBES; LINEAR ARRAYS; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SPATIAL FILTERINGS; SPHERICAL ARRAY; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; DESIGN;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 84865700880     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2208626     Document Type: Article

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