Subspace superdirective beamforming with uniform circular microphone arrays

Gongping Huang, Jacob Benesty, Jingdong Chen

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Abstract

Superdirective beamformers with uniform circular arrays (UCAs) are often used in communication applications for their steering flexibility and potential high directivity factors (DFs). This paper proposes two classes of subspace superdirective beamformers. The first class is based on the diagonalization of the noise pseudo-coherence matrix with the Fourier matrix while the second one is based on the joint diagonalization of the pseudo-coherence matrices of the desired and noise signals. By properly choosing the dimension of the subspace, the developed two classes of subspace superdirective beamformers can find good compromises between large DFs and reasonable values of white noise gains, which make them much more flexible than the conventional regularized superdirective beamformer.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781509020072
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Oct 2016
Event15th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC 2016 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 13 Sep 201616 Sep 2016

Publication series

Name2016 International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC 2016

Conference

Conference15th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period13/09/1616/09/16

Keywords

  • Directivity factor
  • Joint diagonalization
  • Robust beamforming
  • Subspace
  • Superdirective beamforming
  • Supergain
  • Uniform circular arrays (UCAs)
  • White noise gain

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