Comparison of supervised and semi-supervised beamformers using real audio recordings

2012 IEEE 27th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, IEEEI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Heese, Florian ^a   Schafer, Magnus ^a   Vary, Peter ^a   Hadad, Elior ^b   Golan, Shmulik Markovich ^b   Gannot, Sharon ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

acoustic measurements; adaptive and data independent beamformers; Multi microphone speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMER; AUDIO SOURCES; BEAMFORMERS; INFORMAL LISTENING; LINEARLY CONSTRAINED MINIMUM VARIANCE; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; NEAR FIELDS; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPEECH DISTORTION; SUBJECTIVE TESTS;

ALGORITHMS; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; AUDIO RECORDINGS; BEAMFORMING; MICROPHONES; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84871943495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EEEI.2012.6376965     Document Type: Conference Paper

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