Inventory Driven Speech Enhancement for Binaural Hearing Instruments

Project Information

INVENTHI

Grant agreement ID: 253003

Project closed

Start date 1 October 2010

End date 31 January 2012

Funded under

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 112 491,00

EU contribution € 112 491,00

Coordinated by

RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM
Germany

Objective

"The goal of the proposed work is the development of a new and improved method for the binaural de-noising and de-reverberation of speech signals in hearing instruments. The proposed new method was pioneered by the research team of Prof. Robert Nickel in the context of (non-reverberant) monaural speech enhancement. The approach is fundamentally different from most conventional and state-of-the-art de-noising and de-reverberation schemes. Instead of filtering a distorted signal, a new ""clean"" signal is re-synthesized based on its likely characteristics. These characteristics are estimated from the distorted signal. Recently, X. Xiao and R. M. Nickel (applicant) presented a first successful monaural (single-channel) implementation of the proposed method for mobile communication systems (published in 2008 and 2009). In addition, the new approach also offers tremendous potential to improve existing de-noising and de-reverberation schemes in hearing instruments. To cope with the specific requirements of hearing instruments, however, the general approach must be substantially modified and extended. The proposed host organization, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) in Germany, and its Institute of Communication Acoustics under the direction of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Martin has highly developed expertise in research and development of signal processing strategies for hearing instruments. An International Incoming Fellowship (IIF) of the Marie Curie Action would enable Prof. Nickel to join the group of Prof. Martin in Bochum, Germany, to collaboratively research and develop the proposed new procedure."

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• natural sciences › chemical sciences › inorganic chemistry › transition metals
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › signal processing
• natural sciences › physical sciences › acoustics

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Programme(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IIF - Marie Curie Action: "International Incoming Fellowships"

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IIF
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Funding Scheme

MC-IIF - International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)

Coordinator

RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM

• EU contribution: € 112 491,00
• Address: UNIVERSITAETSSTRASSE 150 ; 44801 Bochum ; Germany
• Region: Nordrhein-Westfalen › Arnsberg › Bochum, Kreisfreie Stadt
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Total cost: No data