Algorithms and applications for estimating the standard deviation of AWGN when observations are not signal-free

Journal of Computers (Finland)

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1-10

  Pastor, Dominique ^a   Amehraye, Asmaa ^a  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Binary hypothesis testing; Decision; Estimation; Likelihood theory; Multivariate normal distribution; Speech denoising

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; BINS; DECISION THEORY; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; STATISTICS; WHITE NOISE;

BINARY HYPOTHESIS TESTING; DECISION; LIKELIHOOD THEORY; MULTI-VARIATE NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPEECH DENOISING;

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 56749087016     PISSN: 1796203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jcp.2.7.1-10     Document Type: Article

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