Robust Bayesian and maximum a posteriori beamforming for hearing assistive devices

P Hoang, ZH Tan, JM de Haan… - 2019 IEEE Global …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2019 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing …, 2019ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-microphone speech enhancement systems often apply beamforming to enhance one
or multiple desired signals in a noisy environment. Common for many beamforming
methods, is that they require the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of the target sound source to be
known in order to achieve optimal noise reduction performance. To improve robustness
against DOA uncertainty, we propose maximum a posteriori (MAP) and Bayesian
beamformers that are able to take advantage of prior information on the target direction. We …
Multi-microphone speech enhancement systems often apply beamforming to enhance one or multiple desired signals in a noisy environment. Common for many beamforming methods, is that they require the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of the target sound source to be known in order to achieve optimal noise reduction performance. To improve robustness against DOA uncertainty, we propose maximum a posteriori (MAP) and Bayesian beamformers that are able to take advantage of prior information on the target direction. We compare the proposed MAP and Bayesian beamformers to state-of-the-art beamforming methods for noise reduction in hearing assistive devices. We evaluate the proposed beamformers in isotropic babble noise in terms of segmental SNR (SSNR) and extended short-time objective intelligibility (ESTOI). Results show that the proposed methods outperform current state-of-the-art beamformers used for noise reduction in hearing aids in most scenarios.
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