Late reverberant power spectral density estimation based on an eigenvalue decomposition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 611-615

  Kodrasi, Ina ^a   Doclo, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

EVD; late reverberant PSD; MWF; prewhitening; speech dereverberation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018754607     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7952228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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