Perceptually motivated coherence preservation in multi-channel wiener filtering based noise reduction for binaural hearing aids

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3660-3664

  Marquardt, Daniel ^a   Hohmann, Volker ^a   Doclo, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

binaural cues; Hearing aids; noise reduction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; HEARING AIDS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

BINAURAL CUES; DISCRIMINATION ABILITY; HUMAN AUDITORY SYSTEM; MULTI-CHANNEL WIENER FILTERING; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; NOISE COMPONENTS; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

EID: 84905240702     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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