Robust speech recognition by nonlocal means denoising processing

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 15, Issue , 2008, Pages 701-704

  Xu, Haitian ^a   Tan, Zheng Hua ^b   Dalsgaard, Paul ^b   Lindberg, Brge ^b  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Noise robustness; Nonlocal means; Speech enhancement; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL METHODS; DE-NOISING; IMAGE DE-NOISING; IMAGINARY PARTS; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; NOISY SPEECH; NONLOCAL; NONLOCAL MEANS; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; SPEECH SPECTROGRAM;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PIXELS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 67650134498     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2008.2001820     Document Type: Article

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