Spatially pre-processed speech distortion weighted multi-channel Wiener filtering for noise reduction

Signal Processing

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2367-2387

  Spriet, A ^a   Moonen, M ^a   Wouters, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Generalized sidelobe canceller; Multi channel Wiener filter; Multi microphone noise reduction; Robust adaptive beamforming; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; NOISE ABATEMENT; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPEECH; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

GENERALIZED SIDELOBE CANCELLER; MULTI-CHANNEL WIENER FILTERS; MULTI-MICRPHONE NOISE REDUCTION; ROBUST ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

WAVE FILTERS;

EID: 5744231382     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2004.07.028     Document Type: Article

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