Performance of the SDW-MWF with randomly located microphones in a reverberant enclosure

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1513-1523

  Markovich Golan, Shmulik ^a   Gannot, Sharon ^a   Cohen, Israel ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

beamforming; Optimal filtering; performance bounds; room acoustics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; OPTIMAL FILTERING; PERFORMANCE BOUNDS; RELIABILITY FUNCTIONS; ROOM ACOUSTICS; SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE RATIO; WIRELESS ACOUSTIC SENSOR NETWORKS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; BEAMFORMING; ENCLOSURES; MICROPHONES; REVERBERATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84876807565     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2013.2255280     Document Type: Article

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