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A Reduced Bandwidth Binaural MVDR Beamformer
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Shmulik Markovich Golan
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Sharon Gannot
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Israel Cohen
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School of Engineering, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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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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