SVD-based optimal filtering for noise reduction in dual microphone hearing aids: A real time implementation and perceptual evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1563-1573

  Maj, Jean Baptiste ^a   Royackers, Liesbeth ^a   Moonen, Marc ^a,b   Wouters, Jan ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b European Association for Signal Speech and Image Processing

^c International Collegium for Rehabilitative Audiology ^*

^d NAG

Author keywords

Adaptive beamformer; Hearing aids; Noise reduction algorithms; Optimal filtering technique; Singular value decomposition; Voice activity detector

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; MICROPHONES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

BEHIND-THE-EAR (BTE) HEARING AID; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHM; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (SVD); VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTORS (VAD);

HEARING AIDS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FILTRATION; HEARING AID; MICROPHONE; NOISE REDUCTION; PERCEPTION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VOICE;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 26844578882     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.851517     Document Type: Article

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