Performance analysis of the covariance subtraction method for relative transfer function estimation and comparison to the covariance whitening method

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 544-548

  Markovich Golan, Shmulik ^a   Gannot, Sharon ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

beamforming; MVDR; Relative transfer function; speech distortion weighted MWF

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PROCESSING; AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; BEAMFORMING; MICROPHONES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; MICROPHONE ARRAY PROCESSING; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; MVDR; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISTORTION; TRANSFER FUNCTION ESTIMATION;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 84946027267     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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