Interaural Coherence Preservation in Multi-Channel Wiener Filtering-Based Noise Reduction for Binaural Hearing AIDS

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2162-2176

  Marquardt, Daniel ^a   Hohmann, Volker ^a   Doclo, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binaural cues; hearing AIDS; interaural coherence; multi channel wiener filter (MWF); noise reduction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; HEARING AIDS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

BINAURAL CUES; DISCRIMINATION ABILITY; HUMAN AUDITORY SYSTEM; MULTI-CHANNEL WIENER FILTERING; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84941335276     PISSN: 23299290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2015.2471096     Document Type: Article

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