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- Presents cutting-edge theory and algorithms for spherical microphone arrays
- Relevant for a broad range of applications in audio and acoustics, like speech communication, music recording, room acoustics, acoustic holography, virtual acoustics and binaural sound reproduction
- Also relevant for other areas such as image processing and geodesy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Topics in Signal Processing (STSP, volume 8)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of spherical microphone arrays. It is written for graduate students, researchers and engineers who work with spherical microphone arrays in a wide range of applications.
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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.
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 present 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 beamformers that achieve maximum directivity and maximum robustness, and the Dolph-Chebyshev beamformer are developed. The final chapter discusses more advanced beamformers, such as MVDR and LCMV, which are tailored to the measured sound field.
Keywords
- Linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV)
- Microphone arrays
- Minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR)
- Optimal beamforming
- Plane-wave decomposition
- Rigid sphere array
- Spatial sampling
- Spherical Fourier Transform
- Spherical Harmonics
- Spherical array beamforming
- Spherical array configurations
- Spherical arrays
- Spherical microphone arrays
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Boaz Rafaely
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamentals of Spherical Array Processing
Authors: Boaz Rafaely
Series Title: Springer Topics in Signal Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45664-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-45664-4Published: 18 February 2015
Series ISSN: 1866-2609
Series E-ISSN: 1866-2617
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 193
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 71 illustrations in colour
Topics: Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Engineering Acoustics