Performance analysis of multichannel wiener filter-based noise reduction in hearing aids under second order statistics estimation errors

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1368-1381

  Cornelis, Bram ^a   Moonen, Marc ^a   Wouters, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Binaural hearing aids; hearing aids; microphone arrays; multichannel Wiener filtering; noise reduction; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL HEARING; ESTIMATION ERRORS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FILTER-BASED; HEARING AID; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MULTI-CHANNEL; MULTI-MICROPHONE NOISE REDUCTION; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTERING; NOISE CORRELATION; NOISE REDUCTION; NOISE REDUCTIONS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; POSTFILTERS; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; SECOND ORDER STATISTICS; SINGLE-CHANNEL; SPATIAL FILTERS; SPATIAL PREDICTION; SPEECH DISTORTION; TARGET SPEECH; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; HEARING AIDS; MICROPHONES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; STANDARDS;

AUDITION;

EID: 79956282391     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2090519     Document Type: Article

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