Noise power spectral density estimation for binaural noise reduction exploiting direction of arrival estimates

IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics

Volumn 2017-October, Issue , 2017, Pages 234-238

  Marquardt, Daniel ^a   Doclo, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

binaural cues; binaural hearing AIDS; Binaural noise reduction; DOA estimation; noise PSD

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; AUDITION; BINS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; HEARING AIDS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRAL DENSITY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

BINAURAL CUES; BINAURAL HEARING; BINAURAL NOISE REDUCTION; DOA ESTIMATION; NOISE PSD;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 85042371449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WASPAA.2017.8170030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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