A comparison of computational precedence models for source separation in reverberant environments

128th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 267-279

  Hummersone, Chris ^a   Mason, Russell ^a   Brookes, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SEPARATION; LOCALISATION; MODEL-BASED OPC; PERFORMANCE GAIN; PRECEDENCE EFFECT; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; REVERBERANT ROOM;

ALGORITHMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 84866036084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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