Print Email Facebook Twitter Spatially Correct Rate-Constrained Noise Reduction For Binaural Hearing Aids in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks Title Spatially Correct Rate-Constrained Noise Reduction For Binaural Hearing Aids in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks Author Amini, J. (TU Delft Signal Processing Systems) Hendriks, R.C. (TU Delft Signal Processing Systems) Heusdens, R. (TU Delft Signal Processing Systems) Guo, Meng (Oticon A/S, Denmark) Jensen, Jesper (Aalborg University) Date 2020 Abstract Compared to monaural hearing aids (HAs), binaural hearing aid systems, in which there is a communication link between the two devices, have improved noise reduction capabilities and the ability to preserve binaural spatial information. However, the limited HA battery lifetime puts constraints on the amount of information that can be shared between the two devices. In other words, the rate of transmission between the devices is an important constraint that needs to be considered, while preserving the spatial information. In this article, a linearly constrained noise reduction problem is proposed, which jointly finds the optimal rate allocation and the optimal estimation (beamforming) weights across all sensors and frequencies, while preserving the binaural spatial cues of point sources. The proposed method considers a rate constraint together with linear constraints to preserve the binaural spatial cues of point sources. Minimizing the mean square error on the estimated target speech at the left and the right side beamformers, the optimal weights are found to be rate-constrained linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) filters, and the optimal rates are found to be the solutions to a set of reverse water filling problems. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated using the averaged binaural signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the interaural level difference (ILD) error and the interaural time difference (ITD) error. The results show that the proposed method outperforms spatially correct noise reduction approaches that use naive/random rate allocation strategies. Subject Wireless acoustic sensor networksmulti-microphone noise reductionrate-distortion trade-off To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:24918cb8-a235-47b0-9c0c-3c6d303f7c85 DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2020.3028264 Source IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language processing, 28, 2731-2742 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 J. Amini, R.C. Hendriks, R. Heusdens, Meng Guo, Jesper Jensen Files PDF 09210875.pdf 545.66 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:24918cb8-a235-47b0-9c0c-3c6d303f7c85/datastream/OBJ/view