Miniature Anechoic Room Design

Combined quasi-anechoic and in-room equalization of loudspeaker responses

This paper presents a combined approach to loudspeaker/room response equalization based on simple inroom measurements. In the first step, the anechoic response of the loudspeaker, which mostly determines localization and timbre perception, is equalized with a low-order non-minimum-phase equalizer. This is actually done using the gated in-room response, which means that the equalization is incor...

Anechoic vs. Semi Anechoic Rooms

Underdetermined Anechoic Blind Source Separation

In this paper, we address the problem of under-determined Blind Source Separation (BSS) of anechoic speech mixtures. We propose a demixing algorithm that exploits the sparsity of certain time-frequency expansions of speech signals. Our algorithm merges `-basis-pursuit with ideas based on the degenerate unmixing estimation technique (DUET) [1]. There are two main novel components to our approach...

Design and Control of a Miniature Quadrotor

Design for a Room-Temperature Superconductor

The vision of “room-temperature superconductivity” has appeared intermittently but prominently in the literature since 1964, when W. A. Little and V. L. Ginzburg began working on the problem of high-temperature superconductivity around the same time. Since that time the prospects for room-temperature superconductivity have varied from gloom (around 1980) to glee (the years immediately after the...