Informed Array Processing

The concept of informed array processing is introduced in this chapter. The conceptual aim of informed array processing is to incorporate relevant spatial information about the problem to be solved into the design of spatial filters and into the estimation of the second-order statistics that are required to implement the beamformers of Chap. 7. Informed array processing techniques are developed for two important signal enhancement problems: noise reduction and dereverberation.

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