Speech enhancement combining optimal smoothing and errors-in-variables identification of noisy AR processes

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5564-5578

  Bobillet, William ^a   Diversi, Roberto ^b   Grivel, Eric ^a   Guidorzi, Roberta ^b   Najim, Mohamed ^a   Soverini, Umberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autoregressive (AR) parameter estimation; Kalman filters; Parameter estimation; Smoothing; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ADDITIVE NOISE; KALMAN FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL; SMOOTHING; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTOR;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 36749023475     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.898787     Document Type: Article

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