Automatic beamforming for blind extraction of speech from music environment using variance of spectral flux-inspired criterion

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 785-797

  Yu, Tao ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; blind beamforming; blind source extraction (BSE); speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SOUND; ARRAY GEOMETRIES; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLIND BEAMFORMING; BLIND EXTRACTION; BLIND SOURCE EXTRACTION; DIFFUSE NOISE; FIXED-POINT ALGORITHMS; INTERFERENCE NOISE; KEY FEATURE; NOISE COVARIANCE MATRIX; NOISY OBSERVATIONS; NONGAUSSIANITY; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; SECOND ORDERS; SPECTRAL FLUX; SUBSPACE DECOMPOSITION; TAYLOR SERIES EXPANSIONS; TIME CORRELATIONS; TIME FREQUENCY DOMAIN;

BEAMFORMING; COVARIANCE MATRIX; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; TAYLOR SERIES; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION;

EID: 77956737752     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2010.2069790     Document Type: Article

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