D.B. Ward

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

D.B. Ward is a scholar working on Signal Processing, Computational Mechanics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, D.B. Ward has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Signal Processing, 29 papers in Computational Mechanics and 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in D.B. Ward's work include Speech and Audio Processing (41 papers), Advanced Adaptive Filtering Techniques (29 papers) and Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques (13 papers). D.B. Ward is often cited by papers focused on Speech and Audio Processing (41 papers), Advanced Adaptive Filtering Techniques (29 papers) and Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques (13 papers). D.B. Ward collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. D.B. Ward's co-authors include M.S. Brandstein, Thushara D. Abhayapala, Robert C. Williamson, Rodney A. Kennedy, Eric Lehmann, Gary W. Elko, Zhi Ding, A.G. Constantinides, Patrick A. Naylor and Woon Hau Chin and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

In The Last Decade

D.B. Ward

55 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Microphone Arrays Signal Processing Techniques and Applications

2001 756 citations M.S. Brandstein, D.B. Ward Springer eBooks profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
D.B. Ward Australia	17	2.1k	1.2k	629	511	493	56	2.5k
Gary W. Elko United States	18	2.0k 0.9×	971 0.8×	783 1.2×	483 0.9×	602 1.2×	73	2.5k
Sven Nordholm Australia	28	2.3k 1.1×	1.8k 1.5×	566 0.9×	385 0.8×	516 1.0×	270	2.9k
Boaz Rafaely Israel	31	3.3k 1.5×	1.6k 1.4×	1.5k 2.4×	1.4k 2.6×	415 0.8×	194	3.9k
M.S. Brandstein United States	17	1.9k 0.9×	996 0.9×	251 0.4×	233 0.5×	670 1.4×	41	2.2k
Fabio Antonacci Italy	24	1.7k 0.8×	460 0.4×	383 0.6×	337 0.7×	483 1.0×	183	2.3k
Walter Kellermann Germany	33	4.3k 2.0×	2.9k 2.5×	764 1.2×	747 1.5×	407 0.8×	283	4.7k
Jonathan S. Abel United States	21	1.4k 0.7×	463 0.4×	326 0.5×	406 0.8×	1.1k 2.2×	137	2.5k
Emanuël A. P. Habets Germany	32	4.1k 1.9×	2.3k 1.9×	702 1.1×	1.2k 2.4×	577 1.2×	284	4.4k
Patrick A. Naylor United Kingdom	31	4.1k 1.9×	2.1k 1.8×	461 0.7×	861 1.7×	559 1.1×	327	4.6k
Simon Doclo Germany	31	4.0k 1.9×	2.9k 2.5×	1.0k 1.6×	1.6k 3.2×	334 0.7×	286	4.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D.B. Ward

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Hasan, Md. Kamrul, Jacob Benesty, Patrick A. Naylor, & D.B. Ward. (2005). Improving Robustness Of Blind Adaptive Multichannel Identification Algorithms Using Constraints. European Signal Processing Conference. 1–4. 23 indexed citations

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Gaubitch, Nikolay D., Patrick A. Naylor, & D.B. Ward. (2004). Multi-microphone speech dereverberation using spatio-temporal averaging. European Signal Processing Conference. 809–812. 15 indexed citations

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Talantzis, Fotios, D.B. Ward, & Patrick A. Naylor. (2004). Expected performance of a family of blind source separation algorithms in a reverberant room. 4. iv–61. 3 indexed citations

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Ward, D.B. & Thushara D. Abhayapala. (2004). Range and bearing estimation of wideband sources using an orthogonal beamspace processing structure. 2. ii–109. 10 indexed citations

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Ward, D.B. & M.S. Brandstein. (2003). Grid-based beamformer design for room-environment microphone arrays. 23–26. 2 indexed citations

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Godara, L.C. & D.B. Ward. (2003). A general framework for blind beamforming. 2. 1240–1243. 2 indexed citations

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Elko, Gary W. & D.B. Ward. (2003). Acoustic crosstalk cancellation system. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 113(3). 1196–1196.

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Ward, D.B. & Gary W. Elko. (2003). A robustness analysis of 3D audio using loudspeakers. 46. 191–194. 2 indexed citations

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Ward, D.B. & Robert C. Williamson. (2002). Particle filter beamforming for acoustic source localization in a reverberant environment. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). II–1777. 41 indexed citations

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Ward, D.B. & Gary W. Elko. (2002). Optimum loudspeaker spacing for robust crosstalk cancellation. 6. 3541–3544. 8 indexed citations

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Ward, D.B., Rodney A. Kennedy, & Robert C. Williamson. (2002). Design of frequency-invariant broadband far-field sensor arrays. 2. 1274–1277. 4 indexed citations

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Kootsookos, Peter J., D.B. Ward, & Robert C. Williamson. (2002). Frequency invariant beamforming with exact null design. 42. 105–108. 2 indexed citations

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Ward, D.B. & Thushara D. Abhayapala. (2002). Performance bounds on sound field reproduction using a loudspeaker array. 21. 187–190. 2 indexed citations

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Brandstein, M.S. & D.B. Ward. (2001). Microphone Arrays Signal Processing Techniques and Applications. Springer eBooks. 756 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brandstein, M.S. & D.B. Ward. (2000). Cell-based beamforming (CE-BABE) for speech acquisition with microphone arrays. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. 8(6). 738–743. 4 indexed citations

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Kootsookos, Peter J., D.B. Ward, & Robert C. Williamson. (1999). Imposing pattern nulls on broadband array responses. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 105(6). 3390–3398. 8 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Rodney A., D.B. Ward, & Thushara D. Abhayapala. (1999). Nearfield beamforming using radial reciprocity. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 47(1). 33–40. 29 indexed citations

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Ward, D.B.. (1998). Technique for broadband correlated interference rejection in microphone arrays. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. 6(4). 414–417. 8 indexed citations

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Kootsookos, Peter J., D.B. Ward, & Robert C. Williamson. (1996). Frequency Invariant Broadband Beamforming with Exact Null Placement. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 40(3). 105–108. 1 indexed citations

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Ward, D.B., Rodney A. Kennedy, & Robert C. Williamson. (1996). FIR filter design for frequency invariant beamformers. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 3(3). 69–71. 92 indexed citations

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