Binaural cue preservation for hearing aids using multi-channel wiener filter with instantaneous ITF preservation

摘要

An important objective of binaural noise reduction algorithms is the preservation of the binaural cues. In this paper an extension of the Multi-channel Wiener filter with binaural cue preservation (MWF-ITF) is presented, where the average noise ITF preservation term is replaced by an instantaneous noise ITF preservation term. This framework in addition allows to impose perfect ITF preservation, leading to a hard-constraint formulation. Experimental results show that the proposed technique yields a better performance in preserving the binaural cues of both the noise component and the speech component compared to the MWF-ITF, without degrading the output SNR.