Binaural noise PSD estimation for binaural speech enhancement

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 7068-7072

  Azarpour, Masoumeh ^a   Enzner, Gerald ^a   Martin, Rainer ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binaural speech processing; Blocking Filter; Noise PSD estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

BACKGROUND NOISE; BIASED ESTIMATION; BINAURAL HEARING; BLOCKING FILTER; ENHANCEMENT FRAMEWORK; LEAST MEAN SQUARES; NOISE-POWER ESTIMATION; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITIES (PSD);

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84905276996     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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