Contribution
Acoular Workshop: Getting Started with Acoular
* Presenting author
Abstract:
Acoular is a framework for acoustic beamforming that is written in the Python programming language. It is aimed at applications in acoustic testing. Multichannel data recorded by a microphone array can be processed and analyzed in order to generate mappings of sound source distributions. The maps (acoustic photographs) can then be used to locate sources of interest and to characterize them using their spectra.This interactive talk will introduce the audience to the basic concepts behind Acoular and demonstrate how to the software to create a simple beamforming map from measurement data. We will elucidate the pipeline architecture and lazy evalutation paradigm of the software and also consider time domain and frequency domain beamforming examples.