Speech enhancement with a new generalized eigenvector blocking matrix for application in a generalized sidelobe canceller
E. Warsitz, A. Krueger, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), 2008, pp. 73–76.
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The generalized sidelobe canceller by Griffith and Jim is a robust beamforming method to enhance a desired (speech) signal in the presence of stationary noise. Its performance depends to a high degree on the construction of the blocking matrix which produces noise reference signals for the subsequent adaptive interference canceller. Especially in reverberated environments the beamformer may suffer from signal leakage and reduced noise suppression. In this paper a new blocking matrix is proposed. It is based on a generalized eigenvalue problem whose solution provides an indirect estimation of the transfer functions from the source to the sensors. The quality of the new generalized eigenvector blocking matrix is studied in simulated rooms with different reverberation times and is compared to alternatives proposed in the literature.
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adaptive interference canceller;
adaptive signal processing;
array signal processing;
beamforming method;
eigenvalues and eigenfunctions;
generalized eigenvector blocking matrix;
generalized sidelobe canceller;
interference suppression;
matrix algebra;
noise suppression;
speech enhancement;
transfer function estimation;
transfer functions
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Warsitz E, Krueger A, Haeb-Umbach R. Speech enhancement with a new generalized eigenvector blocking matrix for application in a generalized sidelobe canceller. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008). ; 2008:73-76. doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517549
Warsitz, E., Krueger, A., & Haeb-Umbach, R. (2008). Speech enhancement with a new generalized eigenvector blocking matrix for application in a generalized sidelobe canceller. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008) (pp. 73–76). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517549
@inproceedings{Warsitz_Krueger_Haeb-Umbach_2008, title={Speech enhancement with a new generalized eigenvector blocking matrix for application in a generalized sidelobe canceller}, DOI={10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517549}, booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008)}, author={Warsitz, Ernst and Krueger, Alexander and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}, year={2008}, pages={73–76} }
Warsitz, Ernst, Alexander Krueger, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “Speech Enhancement with a New Generalized Eigenvector Blocking Matrix for Application in a Generalized Sidelobe Canceller.” In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), 73–76, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517549.
E. Warsitz, A. Krueger, and R. Haeb-Umbach, “Speech enhancement with a new generalized eigenvector blocking matrix for application in a generalized sidelobe canceller,” in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), 2008, pp. 73–76.
Warsitz, Ernst, et al. “Speech Enhancement with a New Generalized Eigenvector Blocking Matrix for Application in a Generalized Sidelobe Canceller.” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), 2008, pp. 73–76, doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517549.
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