Multichannel post-filtering in nonstationary noise environments

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1149-1160

  Cohen, Israel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ADAPTIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; MULTICHANNEL POST-FILTERING; NONSTATIONARY NOISE ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING;

EID: 2442519206     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2004.826166     Document Type: Article

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