Binaural linearly constrained minimum variance beamformer for hearing aid applications

International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

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

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; Binaural cues; Hearing aids; LCMV beamforming; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVES; BEAMFORMING; BINS; HEARING AIDS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; BINAURAL CUES; HEARING-IMPAIRED PERSONS; INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION; INTERFERENCE SOURCES; LCMV BEAMFORMING; LINEARLY CONSTRAINED MINIMUM VARIANCE; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM;

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EID: 84957659688     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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