A new post-filter algorithm combined with two-step adaptive beamformer

Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 483-500

  Saric, Zoran M ^a   Simic, Dragan P ^b   Jovicic, Slobodan T ^c  

^a RT RK Computer Based Systems LLC   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^c University of Belgrade   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Adaptive beamforming; Microphone array; Speech enhancement; Wiener filter

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; BEAM FORMERS; MICROPHONE ARRAY; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MINIMUM MEAN-SQUARE ERROR; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE BEAMFORMER; NOISE POWER; OTHER ALGORITHMS; POOR PERFORMANCE; POSTFILTERS; REVERBERANT CONDITION; REVERBERANT ROOM; SIGNAL POWER; SINGLE-CHANNEL; TIME INVARIANTS; WIENER FILTERS;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; MICROPHONES; REVERBERATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 79960062194     PISSN: 0278081X     EISSN: 15315878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00034-010-9233-1     Document Type: Article

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