A figure of merit for instrumental optimization of noise reduction algorithms

5th Biennial Workshop on Digital Signal Processing for In-Vehicle Systems, DSP 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Yu, Huajun ^a   Fingscheidt, Tim ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTS; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTIMIZATION;

NOISE ATTENUATION; NOISE DISTORTIONS; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION CRITERIA; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION EXAMPLE; SPEECH DISTORTION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84899499059     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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