Spatial and coherence cues based time-frequency masking for binaural reverberant speech separation

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 684-688

  Alinaghi, Atiyeh ^a   Wang, Wenwu ^a   Jackson, Philip Jb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

binaural cues; blind source separation; Precedence effect

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CONDITIONS; BINAURAL CUES; BINAURAL ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; BINAURAL SOURCE SEPARATIONS; PRECEDENCE EFFECT; SIGNAL-TO-DISTORTION RATIOS; STATE-OF-THE-ART ALGORITHMS; TIME-FREQUENCY MASKING;

ALGORITHMS; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; F REGION; MIXTURES; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AUDIO RECORDINGS;

EID: 84890443364     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6637735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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