Theoretical Analysis of Binaural Multimicrophone Noise Reduction Techniques

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 342-355

  Cornelis, Bram ^a   Moonen, Marc ^a   Doclo, Simon ^a   Van dan Bogaert, Tim ^b   Wouters, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Binaural cues; binaural hearing aid; localization; multichannel Wiener filtering; noise reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008582187     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2028374     Document Type: Article

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