Microphone diversity combining for in-car applications

  • Authors:
  • Jürgen Freudenberger;Sebastian Stenzel;Benjamin Venditti

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing - Special issue on microphone array speech processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper proposes a frequency domain diversity approach for two or more microphone signals, for example, for in-car applications. The microphones should be positioned separately to insure diverse signal conditions and incoherent recording of noise. This enables a better compromise for the microphone position with respect to different speaker sizes and noise sources. This work proposes a two-stage approach. In the first stage, the microphone signals are weighted with respect to their signal-to-noise ratio and then summed similar to maximum ratio combining. The combined signal is then used as a reference for a frequency domain least-mean-squares (LMS) filter for each input signal. The output SNR is significantly improved compared to coherencebased noise reduction systems, even if one microphone is heavily corrupted by noise.