A Novel Binaural Beamforming Scheme with Low Complexity Minimizing Binaural-cue Distortions

Andreas I. Koutrouvelis; Richard C. Hendriks; Richard Heusdens; Jesper Jensen; Meng Guo

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682886

A Novel Binaural Beamforming Scheme with Low Complexity Minimizing Binaural-cue Distortions

Andreas I. Koutrouvelis, Richard C. Hendriks, Richard Heusdens, Jesper Jensen, Meng Guo

Signal Processing Systems

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Abstract

While the majority of binaural beamformers aim to minimize the output noise power while (approximately) preserving the binaural cues of the sources using constraints, we propose in this paper to minimize the binaural-cue distortions of the sources in the acoustic scene, such that the output noise power is below a predefined threshold. This new problem formulation is a convex QCQP problem, which leads to an efficient trade-off between noise reduction, binaural-cue preservation and complexity. In particular, the proposed beamformer provides a better trade-off between noise reduction and binaural-cue preservation (in terms of interaural level and phase differences) compared to the well-known binaural minimum variance distortionless response-η beamformer.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Place of Publication	Piscataway
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	8013-8017
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4799-8131-1
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4799-8132-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682886
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019 - Brighton, United Kingdom Duration: 12 May 2019 → 17 May 2019

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Conference	44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Brighton
Period	12/05/19 → 17/05/19

Keywords

Binaural beamforming
binaural cues
convex optimization
noise reduction

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Koutrouvelis, AI, Hendriks, RC , Heusdens, R, Jensen, J & Guo, M 2019, A Novel Binaural Beamforming Scheme with Low Complexity Minimizing Binaural-cue Distortions. in ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)., 8682886, IEEE, Piscataway, pp. 8013-8017, 44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019, Brighton, United Kingdom, 12/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682886

A Novel Binaural Beamforming Scheme with Low Complexity Minimizing Binaural-cue Distortions. / Koutrouvelis, Andreas I.; Hendriks, Richard C.; Heusdens, Richard et al.
ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Piscataway: IEEE, 2019. p. 8013-8017 8682886.

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