Coherence preservation in multi-channel Wiener filtering based noise reduction for binaural hearing aids

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 8648-8652

  Marquardt, Daniel ^a   Hohmann, Volker ^a   Doclo, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

binaural cues; Hearing aids; noise reduction

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL CUES; BINAURAL HEARING; INTERAURAL LEVEL DIFFERENCES; INTERAURAL TIME DIFFERENCES; ISOTROPIC NOISE; MULTI-CHANNEL WIENER FILTERING; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; HEARING AIDS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84890479050     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639354     Document Type: Conference Paper

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