Optimal modal beamforming for spherical microphone arrays

S Yan, H Sun, UP Svensson, X Ma… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An approach to optimal array pattern synthesis based on spherical harmonics is presented.
The array processing problem in the spherical harmonics domain is expressed with a matrix …

On the design and implementation of higher order differential microphones

E De Sena, H Hacihabiboglu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel systematic approach to the design of directivity patterns of higher order differential
microphones is proposed. The directivity patterns are obtained by optimizing a cost function …

Localization of distinct reflections in rooms using spherical microphone array eigenbeam processing

H Sun, E Mabande, K Kowalczyk… - The Journal of the …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents an experimental and comparative study of several spherical
microphone array eigenbeam (EB) processing techniques for localization of early reflections …

Robust localization of multiple sources in reverberant environments using EB-ESPRIT with spherical microphone arrays

H Sun, H Teutsch, E Mabande… - 2011 IEEE International …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spherical microphone array eigenbeam (EB)-ESPRIT gives an elegant closed-form solution
for 3D broadband source localization based on the spherical harmonics (eigenbeam) …

Full-duplex adaptive echo cancellation in a conference endpoint

H Sun, JL Nielsen - US Patent 10,389,885, 2019 - Google Patents
A loudspeaker is driven with a loudspeaker signal to generate sound, and sound is
converted to one or more microphone signals with one or more microphones. The …

Time-domain implementation of broadband beamformer in spherical harmonics domain

S Yan, H Sun, X Ma, UP Svensson… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most of the existing spherical array modal beamformers are implemented in the frequency
domain, where a block of snapshots is required to perform the discrete Fourier transform. In …

Robust minimum sidelobe beamforming for spherical microphone arrays

H Sun, S Yan, UP Svensson - IEEE transactions on audio …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A robust minimum sidelobe beamforming approach based on the spherical harmonics
framework for spherical microphone arrays is proposed. It minimizes the peaks of sidelobes …

Optimal higher order ambisonics encoding with predefined constraints

H Sun, S Yan, UP Svensson - IEEE transactions on audio …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a design method for 3-D higher order ambisonics (3-D HOA)
encoding matrices which offers the possibility to impose spatial stop-bands in the directivity …

An informed spatial filter for dereverberation in the spherical harmonic domain

S Braun, DP Jarrett, J Fischer… - 2013 IEEE International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In speech communication systems the received microphone signals are commonly
degraded by reverberation and ambient noise that can decrease the fidelity and intelligibility …

Optimal real-weighted beamforming with application to linear and spherical arrays

V Tourbabin, M Agmon, B Rafaely… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the uses of sensor arrays is for spatial filtering or beamforming. Current digital signal
processing methods facilitate complex-weighted beamforming, providing flexibility in array …