Adaptive binaural noise reduction based on matched-filter equalization and post-filtering

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7259-7263

  Azarpour, Masoumeh ^a   Enzner, Gerald ^a   Martin, Rainer ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binaural cue preservation; Binaural noise reduction; Matched filter array

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MATCHED FILTERS; BINAURAL CUES; BINAURAL NOISE REDUCTION; MICROPHONE SIGNALS; NLMS ALGORITHM; OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MEASURES; POST-FILTERING; POSTFILTERS;

ALGORITHMS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MATCHED FILTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84890545066     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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