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Conference Paper

Plane Wave Decomposition With Regularization Using a Single Rotating Microphone

Authors: Günel, Banu; Hacihabiboglu, Hüseyin; Kondoz, Ahmet M.

AES Conference: 30th International Conference: Intelligent Audio Environments · Paper 21 · March 2007

Abstract

Plane wave decomposition (PWD) is an effective method for the
analysis of sound fields. The use of spherical and circular
microphone arrays with PWD has been well studied. In this paper,
it is shown that PWD is also possible by using the recordings from
a single rotating half-cardioid microphone. The microphone output
is considered as the matrix product of the rotated polar pattern
of the microphone and the pressure field. It is shown that this
equation can be solved for the pressure values of a virtual
circular microphone array if the microphone used has a
half-cardioid polar pattern. It is then possible to apply a new
weighting function to the virtual microphones for PWD.
Regularization is used to overcome singularities in the solution.
The method has been tested both for simulated and for actual
recordings.

Details

Published in
AES Conference: 30th International Conference: Intelligent Audio Environments
Paper number
21
Publication date
March 6, 2007
Session subject
Intelligent Audio Environments
Affiliation
University of Surrey (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper