EE381K Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing

Guest Lecture on Beamforming

or

Signal and Image Processing Seminar

"An Overview of Sonar Beamforming Algorithms and Implementations"

by

Gregory E. Allen

Applied Research Laboratories

The University of Texas, Austin, TX

Wednesday, October 21, 12.30-2.00 PM, ENS 302

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Continuous-time beamforming
• Discrete-time beamforming
• Implementations
• Beamforming on a Workstation (time permitting)

• D. E. Dudgeon and R. M. Mersereau, Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing, Prentice-Hall, Inc., pp. 289-311.
• R. G. Pridham and R. A. Mucci, "A Novel Approach to Digital Beamforming." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 425-434, Feb. 1978.
• R. G. Pridham and R. A. Mucci, "Digital Interpolation Beamforming for Low-Pass and Bandpass Signals." Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 904-919, June 1979.
• R. A. Mucci, "A Comparison of Efficient Beamforming Algorithms." IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. ASSP-32, no. 3, 548-558, June 1984.
• J. Stine, "Beamforming Illustrations" report and slides, for EE381K Advanced Digital Signal Processing, July 1997.

For more information contact: Greg Allen <gallen AT utexas DOT edu>