Joint dereverberation and noise reduction for binaural hearing aids and mobile phones

Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Da-ten sind im Internet über Acknowledgments This thesis was written during my time as research assistant at the Institute of Communication Systems and Data Processing (IND) at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Tech-nische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen University). I would like to take the opportunity to thank the people who contributed to the success of this work. At first, I am deeply grateful to my supervisor Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Vary for his continuous support of my work by numerous ideas and suggestions and for encouraging me in my scientific interests. I am also indebted to Prof. Dr. ir. Simon Doclo for being the co-supervisor of this thesis and showing much interest in my work. Furthermore, I want to thank all my colleagues and permanent staff of the institute for providing a pleasant and enjoyable working environment. In particular, I am grateful to Dr.-Ing. thank our former project partners for the good collaboration. Special thanks to Dr. Christophe Beaugeant and Intel Mobile Communications in Sophia Antipolis, France for the good and friendly collaboration over the last three years. I also wish to express my appreciation to Dr. Patrick Naylor and his team at Imperial College London for many fruitful discussions during my stay in their lab.