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JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Volume 131, Issue 4, Pages 2873-2890Publisher
ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1121/1.3685484
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The reconstruction of acoustical sources from discrete field measurements is a difficult inverse problem that has been approached in different ways. Classical methods (beamforming, near-field acoustical holography, inverse boundary elements, wave superposition, equivalent sources, etc.) all consist-implicitly or explicitly-in interpolating the measurements onto some spatial functions whose propagation are known and in reconstructing the source field by retropropagation. This raises the fundamental question as whether, for a given source topology and array geometry, there exists an optimal interpolation basis which minimizes the reconstruction error. This paper provides a general answer to this question, by proceeding from a Bayesian formulation that is ideally suited to combining information of physical and probabilistic natures. The main findings are the followings: (1) The optimal basis functions are the M eigen-functions of a specific continuous-discrete propagation operator, with M being the number of microphones in the array. (2) The a priori inclusion of spatial information on the source field causes super-resolution according to a phenomenon coined Bayesian focusing. (3) The approach is naturally endowed with an internal regularization mechanism and results in a robust regularization criterion with no more than one minimum. (4) It admits classical methods as particular cases. (C) 2012 Acoustical Society of America. [DOI:10.1121/1.3685484]
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