Theoretical framework for the optimization of microphone array configuration for humanoid robot audition

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1803-1814

  Tourbabin, Vladimir ^a   Rafaely, Boaz ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Beamforming; DOA estimation; Generalized HRTF; Microphone array; Robot audition

Indexed keywords

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

DOA ESTIMATION; GENERALIZED HRTF; HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MICROPHONE POSITIONS; RANK OF A MATRIXES; ROBOT AUDITION; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

MICROPHONES;

EID: 84921762067     PISSN: 23299290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2014.2351133     Document Type: Article

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