Speech enhancement based on minimum mean-square error estimation and supergaussian priors

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 845-856

  Martin, Rainer ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Minimum mean square error (MMSE) spectral estimation; Minimum statistics noise power estimation; Noise reduction; Supergaussian (leptokurtic) densities

Indexed keywords

MINIMUM MEAN-SQUARE ERROR (MMSE) SPECTRAL ESTIMATION; MINIMUM STATISTICS NOISE POWER ESTIMATION; SPEECH SIGNAL; SUPERGAUSSIAN (LEPTOKURTIC) DENSITIES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); NOISE ABATEMENT; PROBABILITY;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 27644556974     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.851927     Document Type: Article

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