Noise reduction algorithms in a generalized transform domain

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1109-1123

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

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c WeVoice Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosine transform; Fourier transform; Hadamard transform; Karhunen x2013; Lo x00C8; ve expansion (KLE); Noise reduction; Speech enhancement; Tradeoff filter; Wiener filter

Indexed keywords

COSINE TRANSFORMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HADAMARD TRANSFORMS; METAL DRAWING; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

KARHUNEN-LOVE TRANSFORM; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; REDUCTION PROBLEM; SPEECH APPLICATIONS; SPEECH DISTORTION; SUBOPTIMAL FILTER; TRADEOFF FILTERS; WIENER FILTERS;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 68149181669     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2020415     Document Type: Article

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