The binaural LCMV beamformer and its performance analysis

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 543-558

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

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binaural cues; Hearing AIDS; LCMV beamformer; Noise reduction; Relative transfer function

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; BINS; HEARING AIDS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BEAM FORMERS; BINAURAL CUES; INTERFERENCE REDUCTION; LINEARLY CONSTRAINED MINIMUM VARIANCE; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE BEAMFORMER; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 84962799657     PISSN: 23299290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2016.2514496     Document Type: Article

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