Theoretical framework for the design of microphone arrays for robot audition

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 4290-4294

  Tourbabin, V ^a   Rafaely, B ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

beamforming; DOA estimation; generalized HRTF; Microphone array; robot audition

Indexed keywords

ARRAY CONFIGURATIONS; DOA ESTIMATION; GENERALIZED HRTF; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MICROPHONE POSITIONS; ROBOT AUDITION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

AUDITION; BEAMFORMING; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTS; SOUND REPRODUCTION;

MICROPHONES;

EID: 84890444005     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6638469     Document Type: Conference Paper

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