Beamforming with a circular microphone array for localization of environmental sources of noise.

Elisabet Tiana Roig (Invited author), Finn Jacobsen (Invited author), Efren Fernandez Grande (Invited author)

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    Abstract

    It is often enough to localize environmental sources of noise from different directions in a plane. This can be accomplished with a circular microphone array, which can be designed to have practically the same resolution over 360. The microphones can be suspended in free space or they can be mounted on a solid cylinder. This investigation examines and compares two techniques based on such arrays, the classical delay-and-sum beamforming and an alternative method called circular harmonics beamforming. The latter is based on decomposing the sound field into a series of circular harmonics. The performance of the two signal processing techniques is examined using computer simulations, and the results are validated experimentally.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of Inter-Noise 2010
    Publication date2010
    Publication statusPublished - 2010
    Event39th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering - Lisbon, Portugal
    Duration: 15 Jun 201016 Jun 2010
    Conference number: 39
    http://www.spacustica.pt/internoise2010/

    Conference

    Conference39th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering
    Number39
    Country/TerritoryPortugal
    CityLisbon
    Period15/06/201016/06/2010
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    Keywords

    • Delay-and-sum
    • Environmental noise
    • Circular harmonics
    • Circular arrays
    • Beamforming

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