Low-cost modifications of Rao-Blackwellized particle filters for improved speech denoising

Signal Processing

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2678-2692

  Mustière, Frédéric ^a   Bouchard, Martin ^a   Bolić, Miodrag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Particle filters; Rao Blackwellized; Speech denoising; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; CONTROL THEORY; ESTIMATION; FILTRATION; FIR FILTERS; KALMAN FILTERS; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; MIXING; NONLINEAR FILTERING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING; WAVE FILTERS;

ELSEVIER (CO); ESTIMATION PROCESSES; FILTER-BASED; MODEL PARAMETERS; NOISE REDUCTIONS; RAO-BLACKWELLIZED PARTICLE FILTERING; RAO-BLACKWELLIZED PARTICLE FILTERS (RBPF); RESIDUAL NOISES; SIMULATION RESULTS; SPEECH DENOISING; WIDEBAND EXTENSION;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 47749142789     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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