A beamformer post-filter for cochlear implant noise reduction

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2412-2420

  Hersbach, Adam A ^a,c   Grayden, David B ^a   Fallon, James B ^a,b   McDermott, Hugh J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b BIONICS INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c Research and Technology Labs   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMER; COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS; MULTI-MICROPHONE NOISE REDUCTION; MULTIPLE MICROPHONES; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); SPATIAL FILTERINGS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD;

ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMING; MICROPHONES; SEPARATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPREHENSION; CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84876131641     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4794391     Document Type: Article

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