An online dereverberation algorithm for hearing AIDS with binaural cues preservation

Boaz Schwartz; Sharon Gannot; Emanuel A.P. Habets

doi:10.1109/waspaa.2015.7336918

An online dereverberation algorithm for hearing AIDS with binaural cues preservation

Boaz Schwartz
, Sharon Gannot
, Emanuel A.P. Habets

Bar-Ilan University - The Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Abstract

A dereverberation method of a single speaker for binaural hearing AIDS is proposed. Thanks to binaural cues, listeners are capable of localizing sound sources even in reverberant enclosures. As the aim of dereverberation algorithms is the reduction of the sound reflections, it is changing the binaural cues of the reverberant signal. A recently proposed algorithm estimates both the early speech component and the room impulse response (RIR) in an online fashion. In this paper, we develop a binaural extension of this algorithm which enables a tradeoff between the amount of dereverberation and the preservation of the binaural cues of the reverberant signal. The method is tested using a database of binaural RIRs in different reverberation levels and source-listener distances. It is shown that the proposed method enables the tradeoff between improvement in the frequency-weighted signal to noise ratio (WSNR) scores and the preservation of the cues.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479974504
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/waspaa.2015.7336918
State	Published - 24 Nov 2015
Event	IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015 - New Paltz, United States Duration: 18 Oct 2015 → 21 Oct 2015

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Name	2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015

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Conference	IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Paltz
Period	18/10/15 → 21/10/15

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Keywords

Hearing AIDS
Indexes
Integrated circuits
Kalman filters
Microphones
Signal processing algorithms
Speech

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Schwartz, B., Gannot, S., & Habets, E. A. P. (2015). An online dereverberation algorithm for hearing AIDS with binaural cues preservation. In 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015 Article 7336918 (2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/waspaa.2015.7336918

Schwartz, Boaz ; Gannot, Sharon ; Habets, Emanuel A.P. / An online dereverberation algorithm for hearing AIDS with binaural cues preservation. 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. (2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015).

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Schwartz, B, Gannot, S & Habets, EAP 2015, An online dereverberation algorithm for hearing AIDS with binaural cues preservation. in 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015., 7336918, 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015, New Paltz, United States, 18/10/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/waspaa.2015.7336918

An online dereverberation algorithm for hearing AIDS with binaural cues preservation. / Schwartz, Boaz; Gannot, Sharon; Habets, Emanuel A.P.
2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. 7336918 (2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015).

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Schwartz B, Gannot S, Habets EAP. An online dereverberation algorithm for hearing AIDS with binaural cues preservation. In 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2015. 7336918. (2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, WASPAA 2015). doi: 10.1109/waspaa.2015.7336918

An online dereverberation algorithm for hearing AIDS with binaural cues preservation

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