Maximum kurtosis beamforming with a subspace filter for distant speech recognition

2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2011, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 179-184

  Kumatani, Kenichi ^a   McDonough, John ^b   Raj, Bhiksha ^b  

^a DISNEY RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; BEAM FORMERS; BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMING METHODS; BLOCKING MATRIX; COMPUTATIONAL REDUCTION; CONVENTIONAL BEAMFORMING; DIRECTIONAL SIGNALS; DOMINANT MODE; EFFICIENT ESTIMATION; EIGENSPACES; GENERALIZED SIDELOBE CANCELER; MICROPHONE ARRAY DATA; NOISE EFFECTS; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL CANCELLATION; WEIGHT VECTOR; WORD ERROR RATE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMING; CONDITION MONITORING; ESTIMATION; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; MICROPHONES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VECTORS;

ACTIVE FILTERS;

EID: 84858959884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2011.6163927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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