Joint dereverberation and noise reduction based on acoustic multichannel equalization

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 139-143

  Kodrasi, Ina ^a   Doclo, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

acoustic multichannel equalization; dereverberation; Inder Terms; noise reduction; P MINT; robustness

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ADDITIVE NOISE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NOISE ABATEMENT; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AUTOMATIC PROCEDURES; COMMUNICATION APPLICATION; DEREVERBERATION; EQUALIZATION FILTERS; INDER TERMS; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR ESTIMATE; MULTICHANNEL EQUALIZATIONS; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84957709724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWAENC.2014.6953354     Document Type: Conference Paper

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