Instantaneous binaural target PSD estimation for hearing aid noise reduction in complex acoustic environments

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1141-1154

  Kamkar Parsi, A Homayoun ^a   Bouchard, Martin ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Binaural estimators; binaural hearing aids; interaural cues preservation; nonstationary noise reduction; speech enhancement; target power spectrum density (PSD) estimation

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL ESTIMATORS; BINAURAL HEARING AIDS; INTERAURAL CUES PRESERVATION; NONSTATIONARY NOISE REDUCTION; TARGET POWER SPECTRUM DENSITY (PSD) ESTIMATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ESTIMATION; HEARING AIDS; INFORMATION USE; MICROPHONES; NOISE POLLUTION CONTROL; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; POWER SPECTRUM; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AUDITION;

EID: 79952627371     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2084690     Document Type: Article

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