An Integrated Real-Time Beamforming and Postfiltering System for Nonstationary Noise Environments

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2003, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1064-1073

  Cohen, Israel ^a   Gannot, Sharon ^b   Berdugo, Baruch ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Lamar Signal Processing Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acoustic noise measurement; Adaptive signal processing; Array signal processing; Signal detection; Spectral analysis; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH PROCESSING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

BEAMFORMINGS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0242271382     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865703305050     Document Type: Article

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