Incorporating spatial information in binaural beamforming for noise suppression in hearing AIDS

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

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 5733-5737

  Liao, Wei Cheng ^a   Hong, Mingyi ^b   Merks, Ivo ^c   Zhang, Tao ^c   Luo, Zhi Quan ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

^c Starkey Hearing Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaural signal processing; coordinate descent; dual decomposition; spatial information

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; BEAMFORMING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HEARING AIDS; INFORMATION FILTERING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; BINAURAL SIGNALS; COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS; COORDINATE DESCENT; DUAL DECOMPOSITION; LOW COMPLEXITY ALGORITHM; MULTI-CHANNEL WIENER FILTERING; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS;

AUDITION;

EID: 84946032404     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7179070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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