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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337603303321

Autore

Rafaely Boaz <1964->

Titolo

Fundamentals of Spherical Array Processing / / by Boaz Rafaely

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-319-99561-8

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 pages)

Collana

Springer Topics in Signal Processing, , 1866-2609 ; ; 16

Disciplina

621.3822

Soggetti

Signal processing

Image processing

Speech processing systems

Acoustics

Geophysics

Acoustical engineering

Signal, Image and Speech Processing

Geophysics/Geodesy

Engineering Acoustics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Mathematical background -- Acoustical Background.-Sampling the Sphere -- Spherical array configurations -- Spherical Array Beamforming -- Optimal beam pattern design -- Beamforming with noise minimization.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of spherical microphone arrays, and was written for graduate students, researchers and engineers who work with spherical microphone arrays in a wide range of applications. The new edition includes additions and modifications, and references supplementary Matlab code to provide the reader with a straightforward start for own implementations. The book is also accompanied by a Matlab manual, which explains how to implement the examples and simulations presented in the book. The first two chapters provide the reader with the necessary mathematical and physical background, including an



introduction to the spherical Fourier transform and the formulation of plane-wave sound fields in the spherical harmonic domain. In turn, the third chapter covers the theory of spatial sampling, employed when selecting the positions of microphones to sample sound pressure functions in space. Subsequent chapters highlight various spherical array configurations, including the popular rigid-sphere-based configuration. Beamforming (spatial filtering) in the spherical harmonics domain, including axis-symmetric beamforming, and the performance measures of directivity index and white noise gain are introduced, and a range of optimal beamformers for spherical arrays, including those that achieve maximum directivity and maximum robustness are developed, along with the Dolph–Chebyshev beamformer. The final chapter discusses more advanced beamformers, such as MVDR (minimum variance distortionless response) and LCMV (linearly constrained minimum variance) types, which are tailored to the measured sound field.