A VAD-robust multichannel Wiener filter algorithm for noise reduction in hearing aids

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 281-284

  Cornelis, Bram ^a   Moonen, Marc ^a   Wouters, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

binaural hearing aids; multichannel Wiener filtering; noise reduction; voice activity detection (VAD)

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL HEARING; ERROR RATE; ESTIMATION ERRORS; HEARING AID; MULTI-CHANNEL WIENER FILTERING; MULTI-MICROPHONE NOISE REDUCTION; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; NOISE REDUCTIONS; SECOND ORDER STATISTICS; SPEECH DISTORTION; TARGET SPEECH; THEORETICAL STUDY; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION (VAD); VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTORS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; HEARING AIDS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80051622468     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5946395     Document Type: Conference Paper

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