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

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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	2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019 - Proceedings
Number of pages	5
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	17 Apr 2019
Pages	8013-8017
Article number	8682886
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4799-8132-8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4799-8131-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682886
Publication status	Published - 17 Apr 2019
Event	2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) - Brighton, United Kingdom Duration: 12 May 2019 → 17 May 2019 https://2019.ieeeicassp.org/

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Conference	2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Brighton
Period	12/05/2019 → 17/05/2019
Internet address	https://2019.ieeeicassp.org/

Series	I E E E International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Proceedings
ISSN	1520-6149

Keywords

Binaural beamforming
binaural cues
convex optimization
noise reduction

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

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

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

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Koutrouvelis AI, C. Hendriks R, Heusdens R, Jensen J, Guo M. A Novel Binaural Beamforming Scheme with Low Complexity Minimizing Binaural-Cue Distortions. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019 - Proceedings. IEEE. 2019. p. 8013-8017. 8682886. (I E E E International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Proceedings). doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682886

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