Adaptive signal processing for interference cancellation in hearing aids

Signal Processing

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1239-1253

  Puder, Henning ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beamformer performance measurements; Beamforming; Differential microphone arrays; Head related transfer functions (HRTF); Maximum length sequences; Microphone mismatch; Noise reduction; Speech intelligibility

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BEAMFORMER PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; DIFFERENTIAL MICROPHONE ARRAYS; HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTIONS (HRTF); MAXIMUM LENGTH SEQUENCES; MICROPHONE MISMATCH;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645917981     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2005.07.038     Document Type: Article

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