Beamforming with a maximum negentropy criterion

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 994-1008

  Kumatani, Kenichi ^a,b,c   McDonough, John ^a,d   Rauch, Barbara ^d   Klakow, Dietrich ^d   Garner, Philip N ^b   Li, Weifeng ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c EQUOS Research Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Microphone arrays; Source separation; Speech enhancement; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; ACOUSTIC SIMULATIONS; AUDIO-VISUAL CORPORA; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BEAM FORMERS; BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; CONVENTIONAL BEAMFORMING; DELAY AND SUMS; ERROR RATE; FAR-FIELD; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN; GENERALIZED SIDELOBE CANCELLERS; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MULTI-CHANNEL; NEGENTROPY; NON-GAUSSIAN; OUTPUT SIGNAL; POST-FILTERING; RESIDUAL NOISE; SIGNAL CANCELLATION; SOURCE SEPARATION; SPEAKER TRACKING; SPEECH DATA; SUB-BAND; WEIGHT VECTOR; WORD ERROR RATE;

ANTENNA LOBES; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; BEAMFORMING; MICROPHONES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; TRACKING (POSITION);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 67651154520     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2015090     Document Type: Article

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