Multichannel dereverberation for hearing aids with interaural coherence preservation

2014 14th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 124-128

  Braun, Sebastian ^a   Torcoli, Matteo ^a   Marquardt, Daniel ^b   Habets, Emanuel A P ^a   Doclo, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binaural dereverberation; cue preservation; hearing aids

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; BEAMFORMING; BINS; COST FUNCTIONS; HEARING AIDS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REVERBERATION;

DEREVERBERATION; DIFFUSE NOISE FIELDS; DIFFUSE SOUND FIELDS; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE BEAMFORMER; MULTICHANNEL DEREVERBERATION; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; SPATIAL FILTERING TECHNIQUES; UNDESIRED SIGNAL COMPONENTS;

AUDITION;

EID: 84941349223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWAENC.2014.6953351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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