Robustness analysis of binaural hearing aid beamformer algorithms by means of objective perceptual quality measures

IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 315-318

  Rohdenburg, Thomas ^a   Hohmann, Volker ^a   Kollmeier, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; BEAMFORMING; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; ERRORS; HEARING AIDS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMERS; BEAMFORMER ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMERS; BINAURAL HEARING; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; HEAD MODELING; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MODEL ERRORS; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; NOISE REDUCTIONS; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY MEASURE; QUALITY MEASURES; QUALITY VALUES; ROBUSTNESS ANALYSIS; SIGNAL QUALITY; SPATIAL UNMASKING; STEERING ERRORS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 43749115961     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASPAA.2007.4393016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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