Improving beamforming for distant speech recognition in reverberant environments using a genetic algorithm for planar array synthesis

Proceedings of 10th ITG Symposium on Speech Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pessentheiner, Hannes ^a   Kubin, Gernot ^a   Romsdorfer, Harald ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Synvo GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; Beamforming; Convex optimization based beamformer; Crowded tournament selection; Genetic algorithm; Multiple objective optimization; Non dominated sorting; Planar array

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; FLOORS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MICROPHONES; OPTIMIZATION; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; BEAM FORMERS; MULTIPLE-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; NON-DOMINATED SORTING; PLANAR ARRAYS; TOURNAMENT SELECTION;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 84947967206     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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