Multi-channel PSD estimators for speech dereverberation - A theoretical and experimental comparison

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

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 91-95

  Kuklasiński, Adam ^a,b   Doclo, Simon ^c   Gerkmann, Timo ^c   Holdt Jensen, Søren ^b   Jensen, Jesper ^a,b  

^a OTICON A S   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

isotropic; maximum likelihood estimation; multi channel Wiener filter; PSD estimation; speech dereverberation

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; HEARING AIDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SPECTRAL DENSITY; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

BINAURAL HEARING; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON; ISOTROPIC; MEAN SQUARE ERROR (MSE); MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; SPEECH DEREVERBERATION; TWO MICROPHONES;

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84946064303     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7177938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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