Rank-1 approximation based multichannel wiener filtering algorithms for noise reduction in cochlear implants

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 8634-8638

  Serizel, Romain ^a   Moonen, Marc ^a   Van Dijk, Bas ^b   Wouters, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Research and Development   (Belgium)

Author keywords

cochlear implant; eigenvalues decomposition; multichannel Wiener filter; rank 1; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION MATRIX; EIGENVALUE DECOMPOSITION; EIGENVALUES DECOMPOSITIONS; MULTI-CHANNEL WIENER FILTERING; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; NOISE REDUCTION FILTERS; RANK-1; SPEECH SIGNALS;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84890483554     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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