Theoretical analysis of binaural transfer function MVDR beamformers with interference cue preservation constraints

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2449-2464

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

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binaural cues; Hearing aids; Linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) beamformer; Minimum variance

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; BEAMFORMING; BINS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; HEARING AIDS; MULTIUSER DETECTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; NOISE ABATEMENT;

ACOUSTIC TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; ACOUSTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; BEAM FORMERS; BINAURAL CUES; BINAURAL NOISE REDUCTION; MINIMUM VARIANCE; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE; SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE RATIO; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE BEAMFORMER;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84954153935     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2015.2486381     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. A. Boothroyd, K. Fitz, J. Kindred, S. Kochkin, H. Levitt, B. Moore, and J. Yanz, "Hearing aids and wireless technology," Hear. Rev., vol. 14, no. 6, p. 44, 2007.
2. T. Van den Bogaert, S. Doclo, M. Moonen, and J. Wouters, "The effect of multimicrophone noise reduction systems on sound source localization by users of binaural hearing aids," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 124, pp. 484-497, 2008.
3. T. Van den Bogaert, S. Doclo, J. Wouters, and M. Moonen, "Speech enhancement with multichannel Wiener filter techniques in multimicrophone binaural hearing aids," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 125, pp. 360-379, 2009.
4. F. Baumgarte and C. Faller, "Binaural cue coding-part I: Psychoacoustic fundamentals and design principles," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 509-519, Nov. 2003.
5. J. Käsbach, M. Marschall, B. Epp, and T. Dau, "The relation between perceived apparent source width and interaural cross-correlation in sound reproduction spaces with low reverberation," in Proc. 39th German Annu. Conf. Acoust., 2013.
6. A. Bronkhorst and R. Plomp, "The effect of head-induced interaural time and level differences on speech intelligibility in noise," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 83, no. 4, pp. 1508-1516, 1988.
7. J. Blauert, Spatial Hearing: The Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 1997.
8. A. W. Bronkhorst, "The cocktail party phenomenon: A review of research on speech intelligibility in multiple-talker conditions," Acta Acust. united with Acust., vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 117-128, 2000.
9. M. L. Hawley, R. Y. Litovsky, and J. F. Culling, "The benefit of binaural hearing in a cocktail party: Effect of location and type of interferer," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 115, no. 2, pp. 833-843, 2004.
10. R. Beutelmann and T. Brand, "Prediction of speech intelligibility in spatial noise and reverberation for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 120, no. 1, pp. 331-342, 2006.
11. B. Kollmeier, J. Peissig, and V. Hohmann, "Real-time multiband dynamic compression and noise reduction for binaural hearing aids," J. Rehabil. Res. and Develop., vol. 30, pp. 82-94, 1993.
12. T. Wittkop and V. Hohmann, "Strategy-selective noise reduction for binaural digital hearing aids," Speech Commun., vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 111-138, 2003.
13. T. Lotter and P. Vary, "Dual-channel speech enhancement by superdirective beamforming," EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process., vol. 2006, pp. 1-14, Jan. 2006.
14. A. Tsilfidis, E. Georganti, and J. Mourjopoulos, "Binaural extension and performance of single-channel spectral subtraction dereverberation algorithms," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process. (ICASSP), Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011, pp. 1737-1740.
15. A. Kamkar-Parsi and M. Bouchard, "Instantaneous binaural target PSD estimation for hearing aid noise reduction in complex acoustic environments," IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 1141-1154, Apr. 2011.
16. J. Desloge, W. Rabinowitz, and P. Zurek, "Microphone-array hearing aids with binaural output-Part I: Fixed-processing systems," IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 529-542, Nov. 1997.
17. D. Welker, J. Greenberg, J. Desloge, and P. Zurek, "Microphone-array hearing aids with binaural output-part II: A two-microphone adaptive system," IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 543-551, Nov. 1997.
18. I. Merks, M. Boone, and A. Berkhout, "Design of a broadside array for a binaural hearing aid," in Proc. IEEE Workshop Applicat. Signal Process. Audio Acoust. (WASPAA), New Paltz, NY, USA, Oct. 1997, pp. 1-4.
19. Y. Suzuki, S. Tsukui, F. Asano, and R. Nishimura, "New design method of a binaural microphone array using multiple constraints," IEICE Trans. Fundam. Elect., Commun. Comput. Sci., vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 588-596, 1999.
20. S. Doclo, R. Dong, T. Klasen, J. Wouters, S. Haykin, and M. Moonen, "Extension of the multi-channel Wiener filter with ITD cues for noise reduction in binaural hearing aids," in Proc. IEEE Workshop Applicat. Signal Process. Audio Acoust. (WASPAA), 2005, pp. 70-73.
21. S. Wehr, M. Zourub, R. Aichner, and W. Kellermann, "Post-processing for BSS algorithms to recover spatial cues," in Proc. Int. Workshop Acoust. Signal Enhance. (IWAENC), Paris, France, Sep. 2006.
22. R. Aichner, H. Buchner, M. Zourub, and W. Kellermann, "Multichannel source separation preserving spatial information," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process. (ICASSP), Honolulu, HI, USA, Apr. 2007, pp. 5-8.
23. S. Doclo, S. Gannot, M. Moonen, and A. Spriet, "Acoustic Beamforming for Hearing Aid Applications," in Handbook on Array Processing and Sensor Networks. New York, NY, USA: Wiley, 2008, pp. 269-302.
24. S. Markovich-Golan, S. Gannot, and I. Cohen, "A reduced bandwidth binaural MVDR beamformer," in Proc. Int. Workshop Acoust. Signal Enhance. (IWAENC), Tel-Aviv, Israel, Sep. 2010.
25. B. Cornelis, S. Doclo, T. Van dan Bogaert, M. Moonen, and J. Wouters, "Theoretical analysis of binaural multimicrophone noise reduction techniques," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 342-355, Feb. 2010.
26. E. Hadad, S. Gannot, and S. Doclo, "Binaural linearly constrained minimum variance beamformer for hearing aid applications," in Proc. Int. Workshop Acoust. Signal Enhance. (IWAENC), Aachen, Germany, Sep. 2012, pp. 117-120.
27. D. Marquardt, V. Hohmann, and S. Doclo, "Coherence preservation in multi-channel Wiener filtering based noise reduction for binaural hearing aids," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process. (ICASSP), Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2013, pp. 8648-8652.
28. E. Hadad, D. Marquardt, S. Doclo, and S. Gannot, "Binaural multichannel Wiener filter with directional interference rejection," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process. (ICASSP), Brisbane, Australia, Apr. 2015, pp. 644-648.
29. B. D. Van Veen and K. M. Buckley, "Beamforming: A versatile approach to spatial filtering," IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process., vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 4-24, Feb. 1988.
30. S. Gannot, D. Burshtein, and E. Weinstein, "Signal enhancement using beamforming and nonstationarity with applications to speech," Signal Process., vol. 49, no. 8, pp. 1614-1626, Aug. 2001.
31. R. Talmon, I. Cohen, and S. Gannot, "Relative transfer function identification using convolutive transfer function approximation," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 546-555, May 2009.
32. I. Cohen, "Relative transfer function identification using speech signals," IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 451-459, Sep. 2004.
33. S. Markovich, S. Gannot, and I. Cohen, "Multichannel eigenspace beamforming in a reverberant environment with multiple interfering speech signals," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 1071-1086, Aug. 2009.
34. D. Marquardt, E. Hadad, S. Gannot, and S. Doclo, "Optimal binaural LCMV beamformers for combined noise reduction and binaural cue preservation," in Proc. Int. Workshop Acoust. Signal Enhance. (IWAENC), Antibes-Juan les Pins, France, Sep. 2014.
35. S. Markovich-Golan and S. Gannot, "Performance analysis of the covariance subtraction method for relative transfer function estimation and comparison to the covariance whitening method," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process. (ICASSP), Brisbane, Australia, Apr. 2015, pp. 544-548.
36. X. Li, L. Girin, R. Horaud, and S. Gannot, "Estimation of relative transfer function in the presence of stationary noise based on segmental power spectral density matrix subtraction," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process. (ICASSP), Brisbane, Australia, Apr. 2015, pp. 320-324.
37. H. Kayser, S. Ewert, J. Annemüller, T. Rohdenburg, V. Hohmann, and B. Kollmeier, "Database of multichannel in-ear and behind-the-ear head-related and binaural room impulse responses," EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process., vol. 2009, p. 10, 2009.
38. H. L. Van Trees, "Detection, estimation, and modulation theory," in Optimum Array Processing. New York, NY, USA: Wiley, 2004.
39. N. J. Versfeld, L. Daalder, J. M. Festen, and T. Houtgast, "Method for the selection of sentence materials for efficient measurement of the speech reception threshold," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 107, no. 3, pp. 1671-1684, 2000.