Maximum negentropy beamforming using complex generalized Gaussian distribution model

Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1420-1424

  Kumatani, Kenichi ^a   Rauch, Barbara ^b   McDonough, John ^a   Klakow, Dietrich ^b  

^a DISNEY RESEARCH   (United States)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO-VISUAL CORPORA; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BEAM FORMERS; BEAMFORMING METHODS; BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUE; CONVENTIONAL BEAMFORMING; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS; MULTI-CHANNEL; NEGENTROPY; SPEECH SIGNALS; SUB-BANDS; SUBBAND SIGNALS; SUPER-GAUSSIAN; TEST DATA; WALL STREET JOURNAL; WEIGHT VECTOR;

BEAMFORMING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM VARIABLES; REAL VARIABLES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79958015105     PISSN: 10586393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACSSC.2010.5757769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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