Estimating direct-to-reverberant energy ratio using D/R spatial correlation matrix model

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2374-2384

  Hioka, Yusuke ^a   Niwa, Kenta ^a   Sakauchi, Sumitaka ^a   Furuya, Ken'ichi ^a   Haneda, Yoichi ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

D R spatial correlation matrix model; Direct to reverberation energy ratio (DRR); microphone array; sound source distance

Indexed keywords

ARRAY INPUT SIGNALS; ENERGY RATIO; ESTIMATION METHODS; MEASURED SIGNALS; MICROPHONE ARRAY; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; POWER-SPECTRA; SOUND SOURCE; SOUND SOURCE DISTANCE; SPATIAL CORRELATION MATRIX; SPATIAL CORRELATION MODELS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; ESTIMATION; MICROPHONES; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL ENCODING;

CORRELATION METHODS;

EID: 80052630624     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2134091     Document Type: Article

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