A combined multi-channel Wiener filter-based noise reduction and dynamic range compression in hearing aids

Signal Processing

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 417-426

  Ngo, Kim ^a   Spriet, Ann ^a   Moonen, Marc ^a   Wouters, Jan ^b   Holdt Jensen, Søren ^c  

^a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dynamic range compression; Hearing aids; Multi channel Wiener filter; Noise reduction; Speech presence probability

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RANGE COMPRESSION; FILTER-BASED; INTERACTION EFFECT; MULTI-CHANNEL; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; RESIDUAL NOISE; SERIAL CONCATENATION; SNR IMPROVEMENT;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; AMPLIFICATION; DEGRADATION; HEARING AIDS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

AUDITION;

EID: 80054729024     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2011.08.006     Document Type: Article

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