Regularization for partial multichannel equalization for speech dereverberation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1879-1890

  Kodrasi, Ina ^a   Goetze, Stefan ^a,b   Doclo, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER IDMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic multichannel equalization; automatic regularization; speech dereverberation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC REGULARIZATION; EQUALIZATION FILTERS; MULTICHANNEL EQUALIZATIONS; OPTIMAL REGULARIZATION; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; SPEECH DEREVERBERATION;

ERRORS; PARAMETERIZATION;

MINTS;

EID: 84880538217     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2013.2260743     Document Type: Article

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