Multichannel eigenspace beamforming in a reverberant noisy environment with multiple interfering speech signals

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1071-1086

  Markovich, Shmulik ^a   Gannot, Sharon ^a   Cohen, Israel ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; Interference cancellation; Speech enhancement; Subspace methods

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; ACOUSTIC TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; ADAPTIVE NOISE; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; BEAM FORMERS; BLOCKING MATRIX; CONSTRAINT SET; DESIRED SIGNAL; EIGENSPACES; EIGENVECTORS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GENERALIZED EIGENVALUE DECOMPOSITION; GENERALIZED SIDELOBE CANCELER; INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION; INTERFERENCE REDUCTION; INTERFERENCE SOURCES; INTERFERENCE SUBSPACE; INTERFERING SIGNALS; INTERFERING SOURCES; LINEAR CONSTRAINTS; LINEARLY CONSTRAINED MINIMUM VARIANCE; MULTI-CHANNEL; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; NONSTATIONARY; POWER MINIMIZATION; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SPEECH SIGNALS; STATIONARY NOISE; SUBSPACE METHODS;

ACOUSTICS; BEAMFORMING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; RADIO INTERFERENCE; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 68149150804     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2016395     Document Type: Article

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