Sound source localization with binaural hearing aids using adaptive blind channel identification

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 438-442

  Merks, Ivo ^a   Enzner, Gerald ^a   Zhang, Tao ^a  

^a Starkey Hearing Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

binaural hearing aids; direction of arrival

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL HEARING; BLIND CHANNEL IDENTIFICATION; EIGENVALUE DECOMPOSITION; LEVEL DIFFERENCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION; TIME-DIFFERENCES; TRACKING BEHAVIOR;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ESTIMATION; HEARING AIDS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL;

EID: 84890473340     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6637685     Document Type: Conference Paper

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