Kolundzija, MihailoFaller, ChristofVetterli, Martin2011-05-202011-05-202011-05-202011https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/67607Building acoustic beamformers is a problem whose solution is hindered by the wide-band nature of audible sound. In order to achieve a consistent directional response over a wide range of frequencies, a conventional acoustic beamformer needs a high number of discrete loudspeakers and be large enough to achieve a desired low-frequency performance. The acoustic beamformer design described in this paper uses measurement-based optimized beamforming for loudspeakers mounted on a rigid cylindrical baffle. Super-directional beamforming enables achieving desired directivity with multiple loudspeakers at low frequencies. High frequencies are reproduced with a single loudspeaker, whose highly directional reproduction---due to the cylindrical baffle---matches the design goals. In addition to the beamformer filter design procedure, it is shown how such loudspeaker array can be used for spatial sound reproduction.beamformingloudspeaker arrayssound scatteringNCCR-MICSNCCR-MICS/EMSPLCAV-APDAtext::conference output::conference paper not in proceedings