Blind acoustic beamforming based on generalized eigenvalue decomposition

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1529-1539

  Warsitz, Ernst ^a   Haeb Umbach, Reinhold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blind beamforming; Generalized eigenvalue decomposition; Microphone arrays; Speech distortion

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION ALGORITHMS; ARRAY BEAMFORMING; ARRAY GEOMETRIES; BEAM FORMERS; BLIND BEAMFORMING; COLORED NOISE; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; DIFFUSE NOISE; DIRECTION-OF-ARRIVAL; GENERALIZED EIGENVALUE DECOMPOSITION; GENERALIZED EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS; GENERALIZED MINIMUM VARIANCES; GRADIENT ASCENTS; KEY FEATURES; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; NARROW BANDS; OUTPUT SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; POST FILTERS; SINGLE CHANNELS; SPEECH DISTORTION;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MICROPHONES; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 51449123556     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.898454     Document Type: Article

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