A study of the LCMV and MVDR noise reduction filters

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4925-4935

  Souden, Mehrez ^a   Benesty, Jacob ^a   Affes, Sofine ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beamforming; interference rejection; linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV); minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR); noise reduction; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; BEAM FORMERS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; DESIRED SIGNAL; INTERFERENCE REDUCTION; INTERFERENCE REJECTION; LINEARLY CONSTRAINED MINIMUM VARIANCE; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE BEAMFORMER; MIXTURE ENERGY; NOISE ENERGY; NOISE REDUCTION FILTERS; NOISE REDUCTIONS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OUTPUT SIGNAL; OUTPUT SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; RESIDUAL INTERFERENCE; SPEECH ACQUISITION; TARGET SIGNALS; TARGET SOURCE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; BEAMFORMING; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MATCHED FILTERS; MULTIPLE ACCESS INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; PATTERN MATCHING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION;

EID: 77955590855     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2010.2051803     Document Type: Article

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