A speech distortion and interference rejection constraint beamformer

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 854-867

  Habets, Emanul A P ^a   Benesty, Jacob ^b   Naylor, Patrick A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beamforming; frequency domain; linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV); minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR); noise reduction; parameterized multichannel Wiener filter; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAINS; LINEARLY CONSTRAINED MINIMUM VARIANCE; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE; NOISE REDUCTIONS; PARAMETERIZED;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 84856191035     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2166958     Document Type: Article

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