Incorporating spatial information in binaural beamforming for noise suppression in hearing AIDS

Wei Cheng Liao; Mingyi Hong; Ivo Merks; Tao Zhang; Zhi Quan Luo

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7179070

Incorporating spatial information in binaural beamforming for noise suppression in hearing AIDS

Wei Cheng Liao
, Mingyi Hong
, Ivo Merks
, Tao Zhang
, Zhi Quan Luo

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a beamforming algorithm for binaural hearing AIDS with enhanced noise suppression capability. The enhancement is based on incorporating a priori spatial information into the conventional multichannel Wiener filtering (MWF) approach for noise suppression. We develop a low complexity algorithm for the resulting quadratically constrained beamforming problem. Through numerical experiments, we demonstrate that the new algorithm can achieve better noise suppression performance than the existing beamforming algorithms under fairly realistic conditions. In addition, we propose two techniques to further reduce the algorithm's computational complexity and the communication overhead between two hearing AIDS without sacrificing the noise suppression performance.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	5733-5737
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467369978
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7179070
State	Published - Aug 4 2015
Event	40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Brisbane, Australia Duration: Apr 19 2014 → Apr 24 2014

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Name	ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume	2015-August
ISSN (Print)	1520-6149

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Other	40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Brisbane
Period	4/19/14 → 4/24/14

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Binaural signal processing
coordinate descent
dual decomposition
spatial information

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Liao, W. C., Hong, M., Merks, I., Zhang, T., & Luo, Z. Q. (2015). Incorporating spatial information in binaural beamforming for noise suppression in hearing AIDS. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings (pp. 5733-5737). Article 7179070 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-August). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7179070

Incorporating spatial information in binaural beamforming for noise suppression in hearing AIDS. / Liao, Wei Cheng; Hong, Mingyi; Merks, Ivo et al.
2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. p. 5733-5737 7179070 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-August).

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Liao, WC, Hong, M, Merks, I, Zhang, T & Luo, ZQ 2015, Incorporating spatial information in binaural beamforming for noise suppression in hearing AIDS. in 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings., 7179070, ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, vol. 2015-August, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 5733-5737, 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015, Brisbane, Australia, 4/19/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7179070

Liao WC, Hong M, Merks I, Zhang T, Luo ZQ. Incorporating spatial information in binaural beamforming for noise suppression in hearing AIDS. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2015. p. 5733-5737. 7179070. (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings). doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7179070

Liao, Wei Cheng ; Hong, Mingyi ; Merks, Ivo et al. / Incorporating spatial information in binaural beamforming for noise suppression in hearing AIDS. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. pp. 5733-5737 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings).

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