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A Reduced Bandwidth Binaural MVDR Beamformer


Shmulik Markovich Golan 1 Sharon Gannot 1 Israel Cohen 2
1 School of Engineering, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel

In this contribution a novel reduced-bandwidth iterative binaural MVDR beamformer is proposed. The proposed method reduces the bandwidth requirement between hearing aids to a single channel, regardless of the number of microphones. The algorithm is proven to converge to the optimal binaural MVDR in the case of a rank-1 desired source correlation matrix. Comprehensive simulations of narrow-band and speech signals demonstrate the convergence and the optimality of the algorithm.



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