11 accepted papers
Dereverberation has long been a crucial research topic in speech processing, aiming to alleviate the adverse effects of reverberation in voice communication and speech interaction systems. Among existing approaches, forward convolutional prediction (FCP) has recently attracted attention. It typicall…
Fixed beamforming is widely used in practice since it does not depend on the estimation of noise statistics and provides relatively stable performance. However, a single beamformer cannot adapt to varying acoustic conditions, which limits its interference suppression capability. To address this, ada…
Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is a key process in microphone array systems. The steered response power-based minimum variance distortionless response (SRP-MVDR) method performs very well in challenging acoustic environments but suffers from exponential complexity as the number of microphones…
Superdirective beamformers are highly effective at suppressing directional interference and diffuse noise, but their practical use is often constrained by the problem of white noise amplification. Robust superdirective beamforming methods typically address this by imposing a constraint on the white…
Superdirective beamformers, used with small microphone arrays, are highly attractive due to their high directivity and frequency-invariant beampatterns, making them well-suited for processing broadband acoustic and speech signals. However, these beamformers are very sensitive to array imperfections…
Differential microphone arrays (DMAs) have garnered significant attention in recent research and development due to their high directivity and frequency-invariant beampatterns. However, DMAs frequently encounter substantial white noise amplification, which limits their practical applications. This p…
Microphone array beamforming is widely used to extract desired speech signals from noisy environments. While most research in this area focuses on utilizing spatial information, less attention is given to the intrinsic physical mechanisms underlying microphone array observations. This paper aims to…
Kronecker product beamforming is an effective technique for designing beamformers with nonuniform linear arrays (NULAs). However, current techniques are restricted to NULAs with specific configurations, where the steering vector of the array is represented as a Kronecker product of steering vectors…
Thanks to their high directivity, compact size, and reliable performance, differential microphone arrays (DMAs) have attracted great interest from both industry and academia as they have demonstrated great potential to be used in a wide range of applications for high-fidelity speech acquisition. Nev…
This paper investigates the problem of designing differential beam-formers with planar microphone arrays to achieve not only the desired target directivity pattern but also control the beamwidth (BW) or sidelobe level (SLL). We first discuss the target directivity patterns and express the Dolph-Cheb…
This paper presents a method to design optimal linear differential microphone arrays (DMAs) by optimizing the array geometry. By constraining the DMA beamformer to achieve a given target value of the directivity factor (DF) with a specified target frequency-invariant beampattern while achieving also…