Binaural noise reduction in the time domain with a stereo setup

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2260-2272

  Benesty, Jacob ^a   Chen, Jingdong ^b   Huang, Yiteng ^c  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WeVoice Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaural noise reduction; maximum signal to noise ratio (SNR) filter; minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) filter; noncircularity; speech enhancement; stereo sound system; time domain; tradeoff filter; widely linear estimation; Wiener filter

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL NOISE REDUCTION; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE; NON-CIRCULARITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE; STEREO SOUND; TIME DOMAIN; TRADEOFF FILTER; WIDELY LINEAR ESTIMATIONS; WIENER FILTERS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; STEREOPHONIC RECORDINGS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 80052050212     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2119313     Document Type: Article

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