Blind single-channel suppression of late reverberation based on perceptual reverberation modeling

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1439-1451

  Tsilfidis, Alexandros ^a   Mourjopoulos, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; AUDIO SIGNAL; AUDITORY MASKING; REVERBERATION TIME; SELECTIVE SIGNAL; SIGNAL ESTIMATION; SINGLE INPUT; SINGLE-CHANNEL; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; SPEECH AND MUSIC SIGNALS; SUB-BANDS; TEMPORAL ENVELOPES;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

REVERBERATION;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MUSIC; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSIC; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 79953057512     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3533690     Document Type: Article

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