Natural gradient multichannel blind deconvolution and speech separation using causal FIR filters

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 92-104

  Douglas, Scott C ^a   Sawada, Hiroshi ^b   Makino, Shoji ^b  

^a Southern Methodist University   (United States)

^b NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blind source separation; Multichannel blind deconvolution; Natural gradient; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIR FILTERS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; SEPARATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MULTICHANNEL BLIND DECONVOLUTION; MULTICHANNEL SYSTEMS; NATURAL GRADIENT; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 11144238237     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2004.838538     Document Type: Article

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