Soundfield imaging is a special analysis methodology aimed at capturing the directional components of the acoustic field and mapping them onto a domain called 'ray space', where relevant acoustic objects become linear patterns, i.e., sets of collinear points. This allows us to overcome resolution issues while easing far-field assumptions. In this paper, we generalize this concept by introducing the ray space transform for acoustic field representation. The transform is based on a short space-time Fourier transform of the signals captured by a microphone array, using discrete Gabor frames. The resulting transform coefficients are parameterized in the same ray space used for soundfield imaging. The resulting transform enables the definition of analysis and synthesis operators, which exhibit perfect reconstruction capabilities. We show examples of applications of the ray space transform to source localization and spot spatial filtering.

The ray space transform: A new framework for wave field processing

BIANCHI, LUCIO;ANTONACCI, FABIO;SARTI, AUGUSTO;TUBARO, STEFANO
2016-01-01

Abstract

Soundfield imaging is a special analysis methodology aimed at capturing the directional components of the acoustic field and mapping them onto a domain called 'ray space', where relevant acoustic objects become linear patterns, i.e., sets of collinear points. This allows us to overcome resolution issues while easing far-field assumptions. In this paper, we generalize this concept by introducing the ray space transform for acoustic field representation. The transform is based on a short space-time Fourier transform of the signals captured by a microphone array, using discrete Gabor frames. The resulting transform coefficients are parameterized in the same ray space used for soundfield imaging. The resulting transform enables the definition of analysis and synthesis operators, which exhibit perfect reconstruction capabilities. We show examples of applications of the ray space transform to source localization and spot spatial filtering.
2016
Array signal processing; near-field spatial filtering; plenacoustic function; sound field analysis; source localization; space-time analysis; wave field processing; Signal Processing; Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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