A GENERALIZED DESIGN METHOD FOR DIRECTIVITY PATTERNS OF SPHERICAL MICROPHONE ARRAYS

De Sena E., Hacihabiboglu H., Cvetkovic Z.

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague, Çek Cumhuriyeti, 22 - 27 Mayıs 2011, ss.125-128 identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Prague
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Çek Cumhuriyeti
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.125-128
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Spherical microphone arrays provide a flexible solution to obtaining higher-order directivity patterns, which are useful in audio recording and reproduction. A general systematic approach to the design of directivity patterns for spherical microphone arrays is introduced in this paper. The directivity patterns are obtained by optimizing a cost function which is a convex combination of a front-back energy ratio and a smoothness term. Most of the standard directivity patterns - i.e. omnidirectional, cardioid, subcardioid, hypercardioid and supercardioid - are particular solutions of this optimization problem with specific values of two free parameters: the angle of the frontal sector, and the convex combination factor. By varying these two parameters, more general solutions of practical use are obtained.