New Insights Into the MVDR Beamformer in Room Acoustics

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 158-170

  Habets, E A P ^a   Benesty, J ^b   Dmochowski, J ^b   Cohen, I ^c   Gannot, S ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Beamforming; microphone arrays; minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) filter; noise reduction; Pearson correlation coefficient; speech dereverberation; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008537179     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2024731     Document Type: Article

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