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A Subband Space Constrained Beamformer incorporating Voice Activity Detection

Davis, Alan ; Low, Siow-Yong ; Nordholm, Sven and Grbic, Nedelko LU (2005) 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 3. p.65-68
Abstract
This paper introduces a new subband adaptive space constrained beamforming structure for use in hands-free speech enhancement applications. The scheme incorporates a space constrained source model and voice activity information through the integration of a voice activity detector (VAD). The VAD information is used to estimate noise covariance information during non-speech periods and to optimally estimate the source power spectral density (PSD), which is used to provide a spectrally optimized constraint on the source. The proposed structure is evaluated in a real car environment, yielding results which compare well to the optimal Wiener solution where full knowledge of the source is known.
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Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005. (Volume:3 )
volume
3
pages
4 pages
publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
conference name
2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
conference location
Philadelphia, PA, United States
conference dates
2005-03-18 - 2005-03-23
external identifiers
  • scopus:33646699825
ISBN
0-7803-8874-7
DOI
10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415647
language
English
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  abstract     = {{This paper introduces a new subband adaptive space constrained beamforming structure for use in hands-free speech enhancement applications. The scheme incorporates a space constrained source model and voice activity information through the integration of a voice activity detector (VAD). The VAD information is used to estimate noise covariance information during non-speech periods and to optimally estimate the source power spectral density (PSD), which is used to provide a spectrally optimized constraint on the source. The proposed structure is evaluated in a real car environment, yielding results which compare well to the optimal Wiener solution where full knowledge of the source is known.}},
  author       = {{Davis, Alan and Low, Siow-Yong and Nordholm, Sven and Grbic, Nedelko}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005.  (Volume:3 )}},
  isbn         = {{0-7803-8874-7}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{65--68}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  title        = {{A Subband Space Constrained Beamformer incorporating Voice Activity Detection}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415647}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415647}},
  volume       = {{3}},
  year         = {{2005}},
}