Extension of two-channel transfer function based generalized sidelobe canceller for dealing with both background and point-source noise

Speech Communication

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 521-533

  Kim, Kihyeon ^a   Baran, Robert H ^a   Ko, Hanseok ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adaptive signal processing; Generalized sidelobe canceller; Non stationary noise; Speech enhancement; Transfer function ratio

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; ANTENNA LOBES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELECTRIC FILTERS; MICROPHONES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC PATHS; ADAPTIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING; CORRELATED NOISE; GENERALIZED SIDELOBE CANCELLER; INPUT SIGNALS; NOISE CONDITIONS; NON-STATIONARY NOISE; OPTIMAL GAINS; POST-FILTERING; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT SYSTEMS; STATIONARY NOISE; TRANSFER FUNCTION RATIO; TWO CHANNELS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 63649133274     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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