Objective perceptual quality assessment for self-steering binaural hearing aid microphone arrays

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2449-2452

  Rohdenburg, Thomas ^a   Goetze, Stefan ^b   Hohmann, Volker ^a   Kammeyer, Karl Dirk ^b   Kollmeier, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; Direction of arrival estimation; Hearing aids; Noise reduction; Perceptual audio quality estimation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; HEARING AIDS; MICROPHONES; RADIO DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; BEAM FORMERS; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; NOISE REDUCTION; PERCEPTUAL AUDIO QUALITY ESTIMATION;

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL;

EID: 51449085532     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518143     Document Type: Conference Paper

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