Comparison of two binaural beamforming approaches for hearing aids

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

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 236-240

  Hadad, Elior ^a   Marquardt, Daniel ^b   Pu, Wenqiang ^c   Gannot, Sharon ^a   Doclo, Simon ^b   Luo, Zhi Quan ^d   Merks, Ivo ^e   Zhang, Tao ^e  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d University of Minnesota   (United States)

^e Starkey Hearing Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic beamforming; binaural hearing aids; Binaural signal processing; LCMV; noise reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85023756462     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7952153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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