Rate-constrained collaborative noise reduction for wireless hearing aids

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 645-657

  Roy, Olivier ^a   Vetterli, Martin ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Binaural noise reduction; Collaborating hearing aids; Remote source coding with side information; Spatial filtering; Wireless link

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; BEAMFORMING; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HEARING AIDS; POWER ELECTRONICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BINAURAL NOISE REDUCTION; COLLABORATING HEARING AIDS; REMOTE SOURCE CODING WITH SIDE INFORMATION; SPATIAL FILTERING; WIRELESS LINK;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 60549088731     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2008.2009267     Document Type: Article

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