A Unified Convolutional Beamformer For Simultaneous Denoising And Dereverberation

Abstract

This paper proposes a method for estimating a convolutional beamformer that can perform denoising and dereverberation simultaneously in an optimal way. The application of dereverberation based on a weighted prediction error (WPE) method followed by denoising based on a minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer has conventionally been considered a promising approach, however, the optimality of this approach cannot be guaranteed. To realize the optimal integration of denoising and dereverberation, we present a method that unifies the WPE dereverberation method and a variant of the MVDR beamformer, namely a minimum power distortionless response (MPDR) beamformer, into a single convolutional beamformer, and we optimize it based on a single unified optimization criterion. The proposed beamformer is referred to as a Weighted Power minimization Distortionless response (WPD) beamformer. Experiments show that the proposed method substantially improves the speech enhancement per

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