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| Title: | Robust near-field adaptive beamforming with distance discrimination | |
| Author (s): | Zheng, Y. Rosa Goubran, R.A. El-Tanany, M. | |
| Department/Lab Affiliations: | Electrical and Computer Engineering Wireless Communications Lab | |
| Keywords: | Dereverberation acoustic signal processing array signal processing broadband beamforming distance discrimination distance discrimination filtering filtering theory interference suppression linear constraint vector microphone array microphones near-field adaptive beamforming near-field beamforming regionally constrained beamforming reverberant environment robust adaptive beamforming robustness against location errors signal cancellation uniform linear array vectors | |
| Issue Date: | 2004 | |
| Publisher: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |
| Citation: | Zheng, Y.R.; Goubran, R.A.; El-Tanany, M., "Robust near-field adaptive beamforming with distance discrimination," IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol.12, no.5 pp. 478- 488, Sept. 2004 | |
| Abstract: | This paper proposes a robust near-field adaptive beamformer for microphone array applications in small rooms. Robustness against location errors is crucial for near-field adaptive beamforming due to the difficulty in estimating near-field signal locations especially the radial distances. A near-field regionally constrained adaptive beamformer is proposed to design a set of linear constraints by filtering on a low rank subspace of the near-field signal over a spatial region and frequency band such that the beamformer response over the designed spatial-temporal region can be accurately controlled by a small number of linear constraint vectors. The proposed constraint design method is a systematic approach which guarantees real arithmetic implementation and direct time domain algorithms for broadband beamforming. It improves the robustness against large errors in distance and directions of arrival, and achieves good distance discrimination simultaneously. We show with a nine-element uniform linear array that the proposed near-field adaptive beamformer is robust against distance errors as large as /spl plusmn/32% of the presumed radial distance and angle errors up to /spl plusmn/20/spl deg/. It can suppress a far field interfering signal with the same angle of incidence as a near-field target by more than 20 dB with no loss of the array gain at the near-field target. The significant distance discrimination of the proposed near-field beamformer also helps to improve the dereverberation gain and reduce the desired signal cancellation in reverberant environments. | |
| Type: | Article - Journal text | |
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| title | Robust near-field adaptive beamforming with distance discrimination | |
| contributor.author | Zheng, Y. Rosa | |
| contributor.author | Goubran, R.A. | |
| contributor.author | El-Tanany, M. | |
| contributor.deptlab | Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
| contributor.deptlab | Wireless Communications Lab | |
| subject | Dereverberation | |
| subject | acoustic signal processing | |
| subject | array signal processing | |
| subject | broadband beamforming | |
| subject | distance discrimination | |
| subject | distance discrimination | |
| subject | filtering | |
| subject | filtering theory | |
| subject | interference suppression | |
| subject | linear constraint vector | |
| subject | microphone array | |
| subject | microphones | |
| subject | near-field adaptive beamforming | |
| subject | near-field beamforming | |
| subject | regionally constrained beamforming | |
| subject | reverberant environment | |
| subject | robust adaptive beamforming | |
| subject | robustness against location errors | |
| subject | signal cancellation | |
| subject | uniform linear array | |
| subject | vectors | |
| date.issued | 2004 | |
| date.submitted | 2007 | |
| publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |
| identifier.citation | Zheng, Y.R.; Goubran, R.A.; El-Tanany, M., "Robust near-field adaptive beamforming with distance discrimination," IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol.12, no.5 pp. 478- 488, Sept. 2004 | |
| identifier.issn | 1063-6676 | |
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| description.abstract | This paper proposes a robust near-field adaptive beamformer for microphone array applications in small rooms. Robustness against location errors is crucial for near-field adaptive beamforming due to the difficulty in estimating near-field signal locations especially the radial distances. A near-field regionally constrained adaptive beamformer is proposed to design a set of linear constraints by filtering on a low rank subspace of the near-field signal over a spatial region and frequency band such that the beamformer response over the designed spatial-temporal region can be accurately controlled by a small number of linear constraint vectors. The proposed constraint design method is a systematic approach which guarantees real arithmetic implementation and direct time domain algorithms for broadband beamforming. It improves the robustness against large errors in distance and directions of arrival, and achieves good distance discrimination simultaneously. We show with a nine-element uniform linear array that the proposed near-field adaptive beamformer is robust against distance errors as large as /spl plusmn/32% of the presumed radial distance and angle errors up to /spl plusmn/20/spl deg/. It can suppress a far field interfering signal with the same angle of incidence as a near-field target by more than 20 dB with no loss of the array gain at the near-field target. The significant distance discrimination of the proposed near-field beamformer also helps to improve the dereverberation gain and reduce the desired signal cancellation in reverberant environments. | |
| type | Article - Journal | |
| type.DCMIType | text | |
| type.status | Final version | |
| rights | This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. | |
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| date.accessioned | 2007-04-05T14:20:18Z | |
| date.available | 2007-04-05T14:20:18Z | |
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