Maximum likelihood PSD estimation for speech enhancement in reverberant and noisy conditions

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2016-May, Issue , 2016, Pages 599-603

  Kuklasinski, Adam ^a,b   Doclo, Simon ^c   Jensen, Jesper ^a,b  

^a OTICON A S   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

isotropic sound field; maximum likelihood estimator; multi microphone; PSD estimation; speech dereverberation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973294630     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7471745     Document Type: Conference Paper

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