A versatile framework for speaker separation using a model-based speaker localization approach

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1900-1912

  Madhu, Nilesh ^a   Martin, Rainer ^b  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ECHOES; AMBIENT NOISE; BEAM FORMERS; BLOCKING MATRIX; GAIN MISMATCH; GENERALIZED SIDELOBE CANCELLERS; LINEAR APPROACH; LOCALIZATION MODELS; SEPARATION ALGORITHMS; SOURCE SEPARATION; SPEAKER LOCALIZATION; SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION; TIME FREQUENCY;

ALGORITHMS;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 79960528686     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2102754     Document Type: Article

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