Analysis of dual-channel ICA-based blocking matrix for improved noise estimation informed acoustic source separation

Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zheng, Yuanhang ^a   Reindl, Klaus ^a   Kellermann, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTICS; ESTIMATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

BLIND SIGNAL EXTRACTION (BSE); BLOCKING PERFORMANCE; DIFFUSE BACKGROUND; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINT; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; MULTIPLE MICROPHONES; NOISE CHARACTERISTIC; SPECTRAL ENHANCEMENT;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION;

EID: 84899479720     PISSN: 16876172     EISSN: 16876180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1687-6180-2014-26     Document Type: Article

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