Multimicrophone noise reduction using recursive GSVD-based optimal filtering with ANC postprocessing stage

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-69

  Doclo, Simon ^a   Moonen, Marc ^a  

^a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Generalized sidelobe canceller; Generalized singular value decomposition (GSVD); Multichannel wiener filter; Optimal filtering; Recursive algorithms; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

OPTIMAL FILTERING; RECURSIVE ALGORITHMS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

MICROPHONES;

EID: 11144244605     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2004.834462     Document Type: Article

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