Blind spatial subtraction array for speech enhancement in noisy environment

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 650-664

  Takahashi, Yu ^a   Takatani, Tomoya ^a   Osako, Keiichi ^a   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blind source separation (BSS); Independent component analysis (ICA); Microphone array; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

BEAM FORMERS; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; DELAY AND SUMS; ERROR ROBUSTNESS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS (ICA); MICROPHONE ARRAY; NOISE CONDITIONS; NOISE ESTIMATIONS; NOISE ESTIMATORS; NOISE REDUCTIONS; NOISE SIGNALS; NOISY ENVIRONMENTS; NON-POINT SOURCES; PERMUTATION PROBLEMS; SPEECH EXTRACTIONS; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; TARGET SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; APARTMENT HOUSES; ESTIMATION; HEMODYNAMICS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MICROPHONES; POWER SPECTRUM; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION;

EID: 65249179051     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2011517     Document Type: Article

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