For a sound field observed on a sensor array, compressive sensing (CS) reconstructs the direction of arrival (DOA) of multiple sources using a sparsity constraint. The DOA estimation is posed as an underdetermined problem by expressing the acoustic pressure at each sensor as a phase-lagged superposition of source amplitudes at all hypothetical DOAs. Regularizing with an -norm constraint renders the problem solvable with convex optimization, and promoting sparsity gives high-resolution DOA maps. Here the sparse source distribution is derived using maximum a posteriori estimates for both single and multiple snapshots. CS does not require inversion of the data covariance matrix and thus works well even for a single snapshot where it gives higher resolution than conventional beamforming. For multiple snapshots, CS outperforms conventional high-resolution methods even with coherent arrivals and at low signal-to-noise ratio. The superior resolution of CS is demonstrated with vertical array data from the SWellEx96 experiment for coherent multi-paths.
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October 2015
October 08 2015
Multiple and single snapshot compressive beamforming
Peter Gerstoft;
Peter Gerstoft
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California San Diego
, La Jolla, California 92093-0238, USA
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Angeliki Xenaki;
Angeliki Xenaki
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science,
Technical University of Denmark
, Kgs. Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker
Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker
Christian Doppler Lab,
Institute of Telecommunications
, TU Wien, Gusshausstrasse 25/389, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 138, 2003–2014 (2015)
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Received:
March 06 2015
Accepted:
August 21 2015
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Peter Gerstoft, Angeliki Xenaki, Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker; Multiple and single snapshot compressive beamforming. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 October 2015; 138 (4): 2003–2014. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4929941
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