Speech enhancement with a GSC-like structure employing eigenvector-based transfer function ratios estimation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 206-219

  Krueger, Alexander ^a   Warsitz, Ernst ^a   Haeb Umbach, Reinhold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustical transfer function ratios; generalized eigenvalue problem; generalized sidelobe canceler (GSC); microphone array signal processing; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; BEAM FORMERS; BEAMFORMER DESIGN; BLOCKING MATRIX; CONVERGENCE SPEED; EIGENVECTORS; ESTIMATION METHODS; GENERALIZED EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS; GENERALIZED SIDELOBE CANCELER; INTERFERENCE REDUCTION; ITERATION METHOD; MICROPHONE ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION RESULT; SPEECH DISTORTION; STATIONARY NOISE; TRANSFER FUNCTION RATIOS;

BEAMFORMING; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; MICROPHONES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VELOCITY CONTROL;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 77957786860     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2047324     Document Type: Article

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