(a) Cut-section view of the acoustic pressure radiated from the excited plate in the presence of a 10 cm wide masking object positioned 10 cm away from the plate at 900 Hz; (b) virtual acoustic volume encompassing the plate and the rigid object; (c) cut-view of the finite element mesh of the virtual acoustic volume; (d) n_s = 20 × 30 = 600 identification patches to reconstruct the acoustic fields; (e) n_v = 416 measurement patches on the virtual surface (with a 5 cm side length, which respects at least a four-elements-per-wavelength criterion up to 1000 Hz); (f) n_N pressure points randomly located in the virtual volume (avoiding the space in between the plate and the rigid object, depicted in white in the subfigure).