Maximum kurtosis beamforming with the generalized sidelobe canceller

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 423-426

  Kumatani, Kenichi ^a   McDonough, John ^b   Rauch, Barbara ^b   Garner, Philip N ^a   Li, Weifeng ^a   Dines, John ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Far field speech recognition; Microphone array

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; AUDIO-VISUAL CORPORA; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BEAM FORMERS; BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; CONVENTIONAL BEAMFORMING; DELAY AND SUMS; FAR-FIELD; GENERALIZED SIDELOBE CANCELLERS; MICROPHONE ARRAY; MULTI-CHANNEL; NON-GAUSSIAN; NONGAUSSIANITY; OUTPUT SIGNAL; SIGNAL CANCELLATION; SPEAKER TRACKING; SPEECH DATA; SUB-BANDS; WEIGHT VECTOR;

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA LOBES; BEAMFORMING; MICROPHONES; REVERBERATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867218783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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