The impact of speech detection errors on the noise reduction performance of multi-channel Wiener filtering and Generalized Sidelobe Cancellation

Signal Processing

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1073-1088

  Spriet, A ^a   Moonen, M ^a   Wouters, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Generalized Sidelobe Canceller; Multi channel Wiener filter; Multi microphone noise reduction; Speech detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROPHONES; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

GENERALIZED SIDELOBE CANCELLERS (GSC); MULTI-CHANNEL WIENER FILTERS; MULTI-MICROPHONE NOISE REDUCTION; SPEECH DETECTION;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

EID: 17644371328     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2005.01.005     Document Type: Article

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