Dynamic precedence effect modeling for source separation in reverberant environments

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1867-1871

  Hummersone, Christopher ^a   Mason, Russell ^a   Brookes, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Precedence model; reverberation; source separation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CONDITIONS; INITIAL TIME DELAY GAPS; PERCEPTUAL MECHANISM; PRECEDENCE EFFECT; PRECEDENCE MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICAL; REVERBERANT CONDITION; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; SEPARATION PERFORMANCE; SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION; SOURCE SEPARATION; TIME CONSTANTS;

ALGORITHMS; ECHO SUPPRESSION; SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 77955700868     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2051354     Document Type: Article

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