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Bandwidth Extension for Microphone Arrays

Microphone arrays are in the focus of interest for spatial audio recording applications or the analysis of sound fields. But one of the major problems of microphone arrays is the limited operational frequency range. Especially at high frequencies spatial aliasing artifacts tend to disturb the output signal. This severely restricts the applicability and acceptance of microphone arrays in practice. A new approach to enhance the bandwidth of microphone arrays is presented, which is based on some restrictive assumptions concerning natural sound fields, the separate acquisition and treatment of spatiotemporal and spectrotemporal sound field properties, and the subsequent synthesis of array signals for critical frequency bands. Additionally, the method can be used for spatial audio data reduction algorithms.

Author: Bernschütz, Benjamin
Affiliations: Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany; Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention:133 (October 2012) Paper Number:8751 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Transducers

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