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Traditional volumetric noise control typically relies on multipoint error minimization to suppress sound energy across a region, but offers limited flexibility in shaping spatial responses. This paper introduces a time domain formulation…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Manan Mittal , Ryan M. Corey , Andrew C. Singer

Applying a sparse constraint on the beam pattern has been suggested to suppress the sidelobe level of a minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer. In this letter, we introduce a weighted sparse constraint in the beamformer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-25 Yipeng Liu , Qun Wan , Xiaoli Chu

The relaxed zero-forcing (RZF) beamformer is a quadratically-and-linearly constrained minimum variance beamformer. The central question addressed in this paper is whether RZF performs better than the widely-used minimum variance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Takehiro Kono , Masahiro Yukawa , Tomasz Piotrowski

A two-stage multi-channel speech enhancement method is proposed which consists of a novel adaptive beamformer, Hybrid Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR), Isotropic-MVDR (Iso), and a novel multi-channel spectral Principal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Sina Hafezi , Alastair H. Moore , Pierre Guiraud , Patrick A. Naylor , Jacob Donley , Vladimir Tourbabin , Thomas Lunner

We introduce a new linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) beamformer that combines the set-membership (SM) technique with the conjugate gradient (CG) method, and develop a low-complexity adaptive filtering algorithm for beamforming.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-06 Lei Wang , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

In order to address the asynchronous interference issue for a generalized scenario with multiple primary and multiple secondary receivers, in this paper, we propose an innovative cooperative beamforming technique. In particular, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-09 Mai H. Hassan , Md. J. Hossain

Purely neural network (NN) based speech separation and enhancement methods, although can achieve good objective scores, inevitably cause nonlinear speech distortions that are harmful for the automatic speech recognition (ASR). On the other…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Chao Weng , Jianming Liu , Dong Yu

Robust beamforming is a pivotal technique in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems as it mitigates interference among user equipment (UE). One current risk-neutral approach to robust beamforming is the stochastic weighted…

Applications · Statistics 2024-04-10 Ying Li , Zhidi Lin , Kai Li , Michael Minyi Zhang

Motivated by massive deployment of low data rate Internet of things (IoT) and ehealth devices with requirement for highly reliable communications, this paper proposes receive beamforming techniques for the uplink of a single-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Majid Bavand , Steven D. Blostein

We investigate an alternative solution method to the joint signal-beamformer optimization problem considered by Setlur and Rangaswamy[1]. First, we directly demonstrate that the problem, which minimizes the received noise, interference, and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Sean M. O'Rourke , Pawan Setlur , Muralidhar Rangaswamy , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Delay-and-Sum (DAS) is the most common algorithm used in photoacoustic (PA) image formation. However, this algorithm results in a reconstructed image with a wide mainlobe and high level of sidelobes. Minimum variance (MV), as an adaptive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-11 Roya Paridar , Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Mohammad Mehrmohammadi , Mahdi Orooji

This paper presents a new adaptive algorithm for the linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) beamformer design. We incorporate the set-membership filtering (SMF) mechanism into the reduced-rank joint iterative optimization (JIO) scheme…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Lei Wang , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

Low-complexity beamformer design with practical constraints is an attractive research area for hybrid analog/digital systems in mm-wave massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). This paper investigates interference-aware pre-beamformer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Murat Bayraktar , Gokhan Muzaffer Guvensen

Applying a sparse constraint on the beam pattern has been suggested to suppress the sidelobe of the minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer recently. To further improve the performance, we add a mixed norm constraint on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Yipeng Liu , Qun Wan

This letter investigates the robust beamforming design for a near-field secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system with multiple communication users (CUs) and targets, as well as multiple eavesdroppers. Taking into account…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ziqiang CHen , Feng Wang , Guojun Han , Xin Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau

Binaural reproduction is rapidly becoming a topic of great interest in the research community, especially with the surge of new and popular devices, such as virtual reality headsets, smart glasses, and head-tracked headphones. In order to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Lior Madmoni , Zamir Ben-Hur , Jacob Donley , Vladimir Tourbabin , Boaz Rafaely

This paper describes multichannel speech enhancement for improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) in noisy environments. Recently, the minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming has widely been used because it works…

In this letter, we investigate a robust beamforming problem for localization-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. To handle this problem, we propose a novel restriction and relaxation (R&R) method. The proposed R&R method…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Junchang Sun , Shuai Ma , Shiyin Li , Ruixin Yang , Minghui Min , Gonzalo Seco-Granados

Extracting a target source from underdetermined mixtures is challenging for beamforming approaches. Recently proposed time-frequency-bin-wise switching (TFS) and linear combination (TFLC) strategies mitigate this by combining multiple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Changda Chen , Yichen Yang , Wei Liu , Shoji Makino

In this paper, we design robust beamforming to guarantee the physical layer security for a multiuser beam division multiple access (BDMA) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, when the channel estimation errors are taken…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Fengchao Zhu , Feifei Gao , Hai Lin , Shi Jin , Junhui Zhao