Fundamental approaches to robust differential beamforming with high directivity factors

G Huang, J Benesty, J Chen - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Differential beamforming, which measures the spatial derivatives of the acoustic pressure
field, can be used in a wide range of small devices that require high-fidelity sound and …

Steering study of linear differential microphone arrays

J **, G Huang, X Wang, J Chen… - … /ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Differential microphone arrays (DMAs) can achieve high directivity and frequency-invariant
spatial response with small apertures; they also have a great potential to be used in a wide …

Design of steerable linear differential microphone arrays with omnidirectional and bidirectional sensors

X Luo, J **, G Huang, J Chen… - IEEE Signal Processing …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter is dedicated to the design of fully steerable linear differential microphone arrays
(LDMAs). We analyze the steerable ideal spatial responses and explain why conventional …

Efficient implementations of first-order steerable differential microphone arrays with arbitrary planar geometry

F Borra, A Bernardini, F Antonacci… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a spatial filtering approach to first-order steerable Differential Microphone Arrays
(DMAs) with arbitrary planar geometry. In particular, the design of the spatial filter is based …

Design of planar differential microphone arrays with fractional orders

G Huang, J Chen, J Benesty - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Differential microphone arrays (DMAs) often encounter white noise amplification, especially
at low frequencies. If the array geometry and the number of microphones are fixed, one can …

[HTML][HTML] On the design of differential beamformers with arbitrary planar microphone array geometry

G Huang, J Chen, J Benesty - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
This letter deals with the problem of differential beamforming with microphone arrays of
arbitrary planar geometry. By approximating the beampattern with the Jacobi-Anger …

Two-stage beamforming with arbitrary planar arrays of differential microphone array units

D Albertini, A Bernardini, F Borra… - … on Audio, Speech …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Differential Microphone Arrays (DMAs) are of great interest in the literature on small-sized
microphone arrays, due to their good directivity properties and nearly frequency-invariant …

On the design of planar differential microphone arrays with specified beamwidth or sidelobe level

X Luo, J **, G Huang, Y Zhao, J Chen… - ICASSP 2024-2024 …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Insights into the MMSE-based frequency-invariant beamformers for uniform circular arrays

J Wang, F Yang, J Yang - IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter provides new insights into the minimum mean square error (MMSE)-based
frequency-invariant beamformer with the uniform circular array (FIB-UCA). By exploiting the …

A perspective on fully steerable differential beamformers for circular arrays

J Wang, F Yang, J Yang - IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Both the null-constrained method and the Jacobi-Anger expansion method are commonly
adopted to design the fully steerable circular differential microphone arrays (CDMAs). So far …