This paper describes a new database of binaural room impulse responses (BRIR), referred
to as the Aachen impulse response (AIR) database. The main field of application of this …

In the framework of the European HearCom project, promising signal enhancement
algorithms were developed and evaluated for future use in hearing instruments. To assess …

For multi-channel noise reduction algorithms like the minimum variance distortionless
response (MVDR) beamformer, or the multi-channel Wiener filter, an estimate of the noise …

In this paper, we propose a new binaural beamforming technique, which can be seen as a
relaxation of the linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) framework. The proposed …

A group of 28 research partners joined the EU-funded project HearCom with the overall aim
to improve hearing communication. One of the main achievements has been the provision of …

In this paper we present a distributed algorithm for MVDR beamforming which is based on
message passing. The message-passing algorithm performs generalized linear-coordinate …

The presence of environmental additive noise in the vicinity of the user typically degrades
the speech intelligibility of speech processing applications. This intelligibility loss can be …

Speech intelligibility enhancement is considered for multiple-microphone acquisition and
single loudspeaker rendering. This is based on the mutual information measured between …

In many applications using multiple sensors, knowledge of the relative positions of the
sensors is required. The locations of the sensors can be obtained from measured time-of …

We propose a new multi-microphone noise reduction technique for binaural cue
preservation of the desired source and the interferers. This method is based on the linearly …