Extensions of the binaural MWF with interference reduction preserving the binaural cues of the interfering source

Elior Hadad, Daniel Marquardt, Simon Doclo, Sharon Gannot

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Abstract

Recently, an extension of the binaural multichannel Wiener filter (BMWF), referred to as BMWF-IRo, was presented in which an interference rejection constraint was added to the BMWF cost function. Although the BMWF-IRo aims to entirely suppress the interfering source, residual interfering sources (as well as unconstrained noise sources) are undesirably perceived as impinging the array from the desired source direction. In this paper, we propose two extensions of the BMWF-IRo that address this issue by preserving the spatial impression of the interfering source. In the first extension, the binaural cues of the interfering source are preserved, while those of the desired source may be slightly distorted. In the second extension, the binaural cues of both the desired and interfering sources are preserved. Simulation results show that the noise reduction performance of both proposed extensions is comparable to the BMWF-, IRo.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages241-245
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781479999880
DOIs
StatePublished - 18 May 2016
Event41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 20 Mar 201625 Mar 2016

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2016-May
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period20/03/1625/03/16

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.

Keywords

  • Binaural cues
  • Hearing aids
  • LCMV Beamforming
  • MWF
  • Noise and interference reduction

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