Generating sensor signals in isotropic noise fields

J Acoust Soc Am. 2007 Dec;122(6):3464-70. doi: 10.1121/1.2799929.

Abstract

Researchers in the signal processing community often require sensor signals that result from a spherically or cylindrically isotropic noise field for simulation purposes. Although it has been shown that these signals can be generated using a number of uncorrelated noise sources that are uniformly spaced on a sphere or cylinder, this method is seldom used in practice. In this paper algorithms that generate sensor signals of an arbitrary one- and three-dimensional array that result from a spherically or cylindrically isotropic noise field are developed. Furthermore, the influence of the number of noise sources on the accuracy of the generated sensor signals is investigated.

MeSH terms

  • Acoustics*
  • Algorithms*
  • Computer Simulation*
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Motion
  • Noise*
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted*
  • Time Factors