Performance study of the MVDR beamformer as a function of the source incidence angle

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 67-79

  Pan, Chao ^a   Chen, Jingdong ^a   Benesty, Jacob ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Diffuse noise; Microphone arrays; Minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer; Noise reduction; Spatially white noise; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; MICROPHONES; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

DIFFUSE NOISE; INCIDENCE ANGLES; LINEAR MICROPHONEARRAY; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE BEAMFORMER; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE STUDY; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); DESIRED SIGNAL;

WHITE NOISE;

EID: 84897059036     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2013.2283104     Document Type: Article

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