An effective low complexity binaural beamforming algorithm for hearing AIDS

2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liao, Wei Cheng ^a   Luo, Zhi Quan ^a   Merks, Ivo ^b   Zhang, Tao ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b Starkey Hearing Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating direction method of multipliers; Binaural signal processing; spatial information

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; BEAMFORMING; BINS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HEARING AIDS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALTERNATING DIRECTION METHOD OF MULTIPLIERS; BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; BINAURAL HEARING; BINAURAL SIGNALS; COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS; LOW COMPLEXITY ALGORITHM; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPEECH DISTORTION;

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84960894796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WASPAA.2015.7336916     Document Type: Conference Paper

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