Maximum likelihood based multi-channel isotropic reverberation reduction for hearing aids

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 61-65

  Kuklasiński, Adam ^a   Doclo, Simon ^b   Jensen, Søren Holdt ^c   Jensen, Jesper ^a,c  

^a OTICON A S   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

hearing aids; isotropic; maximum likelihood; multi channel wiener filter; speech dereverberation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; HEARING AIDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DEREVERBERATION; FREQUENCY WEIGHTED; ISOTROPIC; JOINT MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MICROPHONE SIGNALS; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; SPEECH DEREVERBERATION;

AUDITION;

EID: 84911863502     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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