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Comparison of Pressure-Matching and Mode-Matching Beamforming for Methods for Circular Loudspeaker Arrays

Authors: Fazi, Filippo Maria; Shin, Mincheol; Olivieri, Ferdinando; Fontana, Simone; Lang, Yue

AES Convention 137 · Paper 9111 · October 2014

Abstract

Pressure-matching and mode-matching are two well-known strategies used for the computation of beamforming digital filters for microphone and loudspeaker arrays. A theoretical comparison is presented of these two methods when these are applied to a circular loudspeaker array mounted on a rigid cylinder. The pressure-matching method is used to generate the desired acoustic pressure at a number of control points arranged in the far field of a circular loudspeaker array, while in the case of mode-matching an attempt is made to minimize the squared error between the Fourier coefficients that represent the reproduced and target radiation pattern of the array. It is shown that, in the case under consideration, the two strategies are identical if the effect of spatial aliasing is negligible.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 137
AES Convention
137
Paper number
9111
Publication date
October 6, 2014
Session subject
Spatial Audio
Affiliation
University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, UK;Huawei European Research Center, Munich, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper