Reduced-bandwidth and distributed MWF-based noise reduction algorithms for binaural hearing aids

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-51

  Doclo, Simon ^a,b   Moonen, Marc ^b   Van Den Bogaert, Tim ^b   Wouters, Jan ^b  

^a NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Binaural hearing aid; Distributed processing; Multichannel wiener filter (MWF); Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; BANDWIDTH ALGORITHM; BANDWIDTH LIMITATION; BEAM FORMERS; BINAURAL HEARING; BINAURAL HEARING AID; CORRELATION MATRIX; DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING; MICROPHONE SIGNALS; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER (MWF); NOISE REDUCTION; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; NOISE REDUCTIONS; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; OUTPUT SIGNAL;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; BANDWIDTH; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; MICROPHONES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

HEARING AIDS;

EID: 70350461534     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2004291     Document Type: Article

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