An informed parametric spatial filter based on instantaneous direction-of-arrival estimates

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2182-2196

  Thiergart, Oliver ^a   Taseska, Maja ^a   Habets, Emanuël A P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dereverberation; Interference reduction; Microphone array processing; Optimal beamforming

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTICS; ARRAY PROCESSING; BEAMFORMING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DEREVERBERATION; HANDS-FREE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERFERENCE REDUCTION; LINEARLY CONSTRAINED MINIMUM VARIANCE; MICROPHONE ARRAY PROCESSING; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; OPTIMAL BEAMFORMING; SIGNAL TO REVERBERATION RATIOS;

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL;

EID: 84921731304     PISSN: 23299290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2014.2363407     Document Type: Article

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