Study of the noise-reduction problem in the Karhunen-Loàve expansion domain

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 787-802

  Chen, Jingdong ^a   Benesty, Jacob ^b   Huang, Yiteng Arden ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

^c WeVoice Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Karhunen Lo ve expansion (KLE); Maximum signal to noise ratio (SNR) filter; Noise reduction; Pearson correlation coefficient; Speech enhancement; Subspace approach; Wiener filter

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

MAXIMUM SIGNALTO-NOISE RATIO FILTER (SNR); NOISY OBSERVATIONS; OPTIMAL LINEAR FILTER; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; REDUCTION PROBLEM; SUBSPACE APPROACH; SUBSPACE TECHNIQUES; WIENER FILTERS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 65249162371     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2014793     Document Type: Article

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