Go To Program 19 The Optimal Widely Linear MVDR Beamformer in Room Acoustics Jacob Benesty 1 Jingdong Chen 2 Yiteng (Arden) Huang 2 1 INRS-EMT, University of Quebec, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2 WeVoice, Inc., Bridgewater, NJ, United States This paper develops, in a rigorous way, the optimal frequency-domain widely linear minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer in the context of room acoustics. Therefore, all second-order statistics of complex random signals will be taken into account. We also develop the most useful performance measures needed to evaluate the derived MVDR filter. View pdf