Coherent-to-Diffuse Power Ratio Estimation for Dereverberation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1006-1018

  Schwarz, Andreas ^a   Kellermann, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dereverberation; diffuse noise suppression; diffuseness; reverberation suppression; spatial coherence

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY CIRCUITS (CDR CIRCUITS);

DEREVERBERATION; DIFFUSE NOISE; DIFFUSENESS; REVERBERATION SUPPRESSIONS; SPATIAL COHERENCE;

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL;

EID: 84928137387     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2015.2418571     Document Type: Article

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