Toward bias minimization in acoustic feedback cancellation systems

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1529-1537

  Boukis, Christos ^a   Mandic, Danilo P ^b   Constantinides, Anthony G ^b  

^a ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HEARING AIDS;

ACOUSTIC FEEDBACK CANCELLATION SYSTEMS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; STATE ERRORS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EAR; HEARING AID; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK; HEARING AIDS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34147100599     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2431341     Document Type: Article

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