Acoustic Beamforming for Hearing Aid Applications

Handbook on Array Processing and Sensor Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 269-302

  Doclo, Simon ^a   Gannot, Sharon ^b   Moonen, Marc ^c   Spriet, Ann ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acoustic beamforming for hearing aid applications; Differences between monaural and binaural beamforming two sets of microphones; Multimicrophone beamforming techniques noise reduction in monaural and binaural hearing aids

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051611260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470487068.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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