Reduced-bandwidth Multi-channel Wiener Filter based binaural noise reduction and localization cue preservation in binaural hearing aids

Signal Processing

Volumn 99, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-16

  Cornelis, Bram ^a,c   Moonen, Marc ^a   Wouters, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c LMS INTERNATIONAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Binaural hearing aids; Localization cues; Microphone arrays; Multi channel Wiener Filter; Noise reduction; Spectral postfilter

Indexed keywords

BINAURAL HEARING; LOCALIZATION CUES; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; POSTFILTERS;

ECHO SUPPRESSION; HEARING AIDS; MICROPHONES; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84891855108     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2013.12.012     Document Type: Article

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