Multichannel equalisation for high-order spherical microphone arrays using beamformed channels
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Author(s)
Moore, AH
Evers, C
Naylor, PA
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
High-order spherical microphone arrays offer many practical benefits including relatively fine spatial resolution in all directions and rotation invariant processing using eigenbeams. Spatial filtering can reduce interference from noise and reverberation but in even moderately reverberant environments the beam pattern fails to suppress reverberation to a level adequate for typical applications. In this paper we investigate the feasibility of applying dereverberation by considering multiple beamformer outputs as channels to be dereverberated. In one realisation we process directly in the spherical harmonic domain where the beampatterns are mutually orthogonal. In a second realisation, which is not limited to spherical microphone arrays, beams are pointed in the direction of dominant reflections. Simulations demonstrate that in both cases reverberation is significantly reduced and, in the best case, clarity index is improved by 15 dB.
Date Issued
2015-07-21
Date Acceptance
2015-04-20
Citation
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), 2015, pp.1211-1215
ISSN
1546-1874
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
1211
End Page
1215
Journal / Book Title
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Grant Number
609465
Source
2015 IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2015-07-21
Finish Date
2015-07-24
Coverage Spatial
Singapore