Multi-Microphone Target Signal Enhancement Using Generalized Sidelobe Canceller Controlled by Phase Error Filter

Abstract

We propose an improved generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) utilizing a phase-error filter (PEF) for multi-channel signal enhancement. The PEF is first incorporated for improving the fixed beamformer (BF) of the GSC. Furthermore, the weight update of the GSC is formulated using the PEF spectral gain. The experimental results show that the proposed method provides better perceptual evaluation and intelligibility scores under multiple noise conditions than conventional BFs, including the GSC and PEF. © 2016 IEEE.