2채널 마이크로폰을 이용한 청각 기기에서의 빔포밍에 대한 객관적 검증
- Title
- 2채널 마이크로폰을 이용한 청각 기기에서의 빔포밍에 대한 객관적 검증
- Other Titles
- Objective Evaluation of Beamforming Techniques for Hearing Devices with Two-channel Microphone
- Author
- 김선일
- Keywords
- beamforming; hearing device; 청각기기; 빔포밍
- Issue Date
- 2011-09
- Publisher
- The Korea Society of Medical and Biological Engineering
- Citation
- Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research, 2011, 32(3), P.198-206
- Abstract
- Hearing devices like cochlear implant, vibrant soundbridge, etc. try to offer better sound for people. In hearing devices, several beamformers including conventional directional microphone are applicable to noise reduction. Each beamformer has different directional response and it could change sound intelligibility or quality for listeners. Therefore, we investigated the performance of three beamformers, which are first and second order directional microphone, and broadband beamformer(BBF) with a computer simulation assuming hearing device microphone configuration. We also calculated objective measurements which have been used to evaluate speech enhancement algorithms. In the simulation, a single speech and a single babble noisewere propagated from the front and $135^{\circ}$ azimuth degrees respectively. Microphones were configured in an end-fire array and the spacing was varied in comparison. With 3 cm spacing, BBF had about 3 dB higher enhanced SNR than that of directional microphones. However, enhancement of segmental SNR and frequency weighted segmental SNR were similar between the first order directional microphone and broadband beamformer. In addition when steady state noise was used, broadband beamformer showed the increased performance and had the highest enhanced SNR, and segmental SNR.
- URI
- http://koreascience.or.kr/article/ArticleFullRecord.jsp?cn=OOSCB@_2011_v32n3_198
- ISSN
- 1229-0807
- DOI
- 10.9718/JBER.2011.32.3.198
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- COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING[S](공과대학) > ELECTRICAL AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING(전기·생체공학부) > Articles
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