Analysis and comparison of multichannel noise reduction methods in a common framework

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 957-968

  Huang, Yiteng Arden ^a   Benesty, Jacob ^b   Chen, Jingdong ^c  

^a WeVoice Inc   (United States)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Microphone array signal processing; Multi channel subspace method; Multichannel Wiener filter; Noise reduction; Spatial prediction; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ARRAY PROCESSING; MICROPHONES; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL POWER; MICROPHONE ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; MULTIPLE MICROPHONES; PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SINGLE-CHANNEL ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL PREDICTION; SUB-SPACE METHODS;

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 65249159268     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.921754     Document Type: Article

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