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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299681803321

Autore

Benesty Jacob

Titolo

Design of Circular Differential Microphone Arrays / / by Jacob Benesty, Jingdong Chen, Israel Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

9783319148427

3319148427

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Collana

Springer Topics in Signal Processing, , 1866-2617 ; ; 12

Disciplina

620

621.382

Soggetti

Signal processing

Telecommunication

Signal, Speech and Image Processing

Communications Engineering, Networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Problem Formulation -- Design of First-Order Circular Differential Arrays -- Design of Second-Order Circular Differential Arrays -- Design of Third-Order Circular Differential Arrays -- Super directive Beamforming with Circular Arrays -- Minimum-Norm Solution for Robust Circular Differential Arrays -- Design of Circular Differential Arrays with the Jacobi-Anger Expansion.

Sommario/riassunto

Recently, we proposed a completely novel and efficient way to design differential beamforming algorithms for linear microphone arrays. Thanks to this very flexible approach, any order of differential arrays can be designed. Moreover, they can be made robust against white noise amplification, which is the main inconvenience in these types of arrays. The other well-known problem with linear arrays is that electronic steering is not really feasible.  In this book, we extend all these fundamental ideas to circular microphone arrays and show that we can design small and compact differential arrays of any order that can be electronically steered in many different directions and offer a good degree of control of the white noise amplification problem, high



directional gain, and frequency-independent response. We also present a number of practical examples, demonstrating that differential beamforming with circular microphone arrays is likely one of the best candidates for applications involving speech enhancement (i.e., noise reduction and dereverberation). Nearly all of the material presented is new and will be of great interest to engineers, students, and researchers working with microphone arrays and their applications in all types of telecommunications, security and surveillance contexts.