Model-based dereverberation preserving binaural cues

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1732-1745

  Jeub, Marco ^a   Schafer, Magnus ^a   Esch, Thomas ^a   Vary, Peter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binaural cue preservation; dereverberation; head shadowing; spectral subtraction; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

AUDIO TRANSMISSION; BINAURAL CUE PRESERVATION; BINAURAL CUES; BINAURAL ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; COHERENCE MODELS; DEREVERBERATION; DIGITAL HEARING AIDS; DUAL CHANNEL; HEAD SHADOWING; HUMAN AUDITORY SYSTEM; INFORMAL LISTENING; LEVEL DIFFERENCE; MODEL-BASED; MUSICAL TONES; NOISE REDUCTIONS; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; SHADOWING EFFECTS; SMOOTHING PROCESS; SOUND FIELDS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPECTRAL GAIN; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; SPEECH QUALITY; STATISTICAL MODELS; TWO STAGE; WIENER FILTERS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ALGORITHMS; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; AUDIO SYSTEMS; AUDITION; HEARING AIDS; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 77955676316     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2052156     Document Type: Article

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