Method and Apparatus for Blind Signal Recovery in Noisy, Reverberant Environments

A maximum-kurtosis, distortionless response (MKDR) technique and an extension, the maximum-kurtosis, Wiener estimate (MKWE) technique, are provided. In one form, blind estimates of the speech source's channel response are made from the microphone data and MVDR is applied. The source direction is estimated by finding weights that maximize output kurtosis, or the fourth central statistical moment, in the frequency domain. The MKWE approach approximates the Wiener filter by using MKDR-output noise power estimates to compute a Wiener post-filter. These approaches can be extended to block-adaptive versions if the speech source is not quickly moving in space.

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Patents:
WO 2,009,151,578

Inventor(s): KLEFFNER MATTHEW D [US]; JONES DOUGLAS L [US]

Type of Offer: Licensing



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