A real-time blind source separation scheme and its application to reverberant and noisy acoustic environments

Signal Processing

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1260-1277

  Aichner, Robert ^a   Buchner, Herbert ^a   Yan, Fei ^a   Kellermann, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blind source separation; Convolutive mixtures; Noisy BSS; Real time; Second order statistics; Stepsize control

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICS;

CONVOLUTIVE MIXTURES; NOISY BSS; SECOND-ORDER STATISTICS; STEPSIZE CONTROL;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION;

EID: 33645950418     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2005.06.022     Document Type: Article

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