Optimal distributed minimum-variance beamforming approaches for speech enhancement in wireless acoustic sensor networks

Signal Processing

Volumn 107, Issue , 2015, Pages 4-20

  Markovich Golan, Shmulik ^a   Bertrand, Alexander ^b   Moonen, Marc ^b   Gannot, Sharon ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Distributed speech enhancement; Minimum variance beamforming; Wireless acoustic sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT; ALGORITHMS; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; BEAMFORMING; MICROPHONES; NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

COMMUNICATION BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; DISTRIBUTED SPEECH; GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES; LINEARLY CONSTRAINED MINIMUM VARIANCE; MICROPHONE SIGNALS; MINIMUM VARIANCE BEAMFORMING; WIRELESS ACOUSTIC SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84922428435     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2014.07.014     Document Type: Article

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