A Full Loading-Based MVDR Beamforming Method by Backward Correction of the Steering Vector and Reconstruction of the Covariance Matrix
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Abstract
In order to improve the performance of the diagonal loading-based minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer, a full loading-based MVDR beamforming method is proposed in this paper. Different from the conventional diagonal loading methods, the proposed method combines the backward correction of the steering vector of the target source and the reconstruction of the covariance matrix. Firstly, based on the linear combination, an appropriate full loading matrix was constructed to correct the steering vector of the target source backward. Secondly, based on the spatial sparsity of the sound sources, an appropriate loading matrix was constructed to further suppress interferences. Thirdly, the spatial response power was utilized to derive a more accurate direction of arrival (DOA) of the target source, which is helpful for obtaining a more accurate steering vector of the target source and a more effective covariance matrix iteratively. The simulation results show that the proposed method can effectively suppress interferences and noise.
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OpenAlex topics: Speech and Audio Processing · Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques · Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
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Affiliations
Speech and Audio Signal Processing Laboratory, Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Funding
National Natural Science Foundation of China
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