Optimal binaural LCMV beamformers for combined noise reduction and binaural cue preservation

2014 14th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 288-292

  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; directional interference; Hearing aids; noise reduction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALGORITHMS; AUDITION; BEAMFORMING; HEARING AIDS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

BEAM FORMERS; BINAURAL CUES; INTERFERENCE COMPONENTS; INTERFERENCE REJECTION; LINEARLY CONSTRAINED MINIMUM VARIANCE; OPTIMAL PARAMETER COMBINATIONS; PERFORMANCE CRITERION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM;

BINS;

EID: 84957695026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWAENC.2014.6954304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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