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Array Beamforming with Linear Difference Equations

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Ever since the invention of the telephone, sound signal acquisition and processing has become a center of acoustic and speech processing.

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  2. Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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  3. Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China

    Jingdong Chen

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Benesty, J., Cohen, I., Chen, J. (2021). Introduction. In: Array Beamforming with Linear Difference Equations. Springer Topics in Signal Processing, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68273-6_1

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