Theoretical analysis of linearly constrained multi-channel wiener filtering algorithms for combined noise reduction and binaural cue preservation in binaural hearing AIDS

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2384-2397

  Marquardt, Daniel ^a   Hadad, Elior ^b   Gannot, Sharon ^b   Doclo, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Binaural cues; Hearing aids; Multi channel Wiener filter (MWF); Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; ECHO SUPPRESSION; HEARING AIDS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPEECH; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ACHIEVABLE PERFORMANCE; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BINAURAL CUES; MULTI-CHANNEL WIENER FILTERING; MULTICHANNEL WIENER FILTER; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; SIGNAL TO INTERFERENCE RATIO; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM; INTERFERENCE REJECTION;

BINS;

EID: 84954149506     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2015.2479940     Document Type: Article

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