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Beamforming

Beamforming is a spatial signal processing technique that uses microphone arrays to selectively enhance sound from a desired direction while suppressing sounds from other directions. Formalized by Van Veen and Buckley in 1988, beamforming is fundamental to hands-free speech communication, hearing aids, sonar, radar, and spatial audio recording. It enables 'listening' with directional sensitivity despite using omnidirectional microphones, by exploiting time delays and phase differences between array elements.

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Acoustic Beamforming and Directional Microphone Arrays
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / acoustics
  • Van Veen, B. D., & Buckley, K. M. (1988). Beamforming: A versatile approach to spatial filtering. IEEE ASSP Magazine, 5(2), 4–24. · DOI 10.1109/53.665
  • Brandstein, M., & Ward, D. (2001). Microphone Arrays: Signal Processing Techniques and Applications. Springer-Verlag. · ISBN 978-3540419013
  • Krim, H., & Viberg, M. (1996). Two decades of array signal processing research. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 13(4), 67–94. · DOI 10.1109/79.526899
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