Diffuse noise suppression using crystal-shaped microphone arrays

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2101-2110

  Ito, Nobutaka ^a   Shimizu, Hikaru ^b   Ono, Nobutaka ^a   Sagayama, Shigeki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffuse noise; microphone arrays; noise suppression; post filtering; reverberation

Indexed keywords

ARRAY GEOMETRIES; CRYSTAL ARRAYS; DIFFUSE NOISE; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; ISOTROPY CONDITIONS; LINEAR MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE BEAMFORMER; NOISE COVARIANCE MATRIX; NOISE SUPPRESSION; NOISY OBSERVATIONS; NOVEL METHODS; POST-FILTERING; POSTFILTERS; REAL-WORLD NOISE; SPATIAL COVARIANCE MATRIX; SPATIAL NOISE; STEERING VECTOR; TARGET SIGNALS; TWO-STAGE PROCESSING; UNITARY MATRIX;

ESTIMATION; MICROPHONES; POWER SPECTRUM; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; VECTORS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

EID: 79960907613     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2112645     Document Type: Article

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