A deconvolution approach to source localization

Due to its low resolution the conventional beamformer (CBF) has generally been neglected in the recent literature on array processing and considerable attention devoted to the high-resolution (HR) techniques. Applying a deconvolution approach to the output of the CBF, the authors obtain a source localization procedure whose performances are comparable to those of the most efficient HR techniques. The scheme, moreover, also furnishes estimates of the source powers and comprises a test that detects the number of sources present. It can indeed be seen as a means to obtain maximum likelihood estimates (MLE) when the CBF-output is taken as the observed data. >

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