A low-complexity noise estimation algorithm based on smoothing of noise power estimation and estimation bias correction

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4421-4424

  Yu, Rongshan ^a  

^a DOLBY LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectation maximization; Noise estimation; Noise suppression; Noise tracking; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

BIAS ESTIMATION; CORRECTION METHOD; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; ESTIMATION BIAS; ESTIMATION ERRORS; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION; INPUT SIGNAL; LOW-COMPLEXITY; MINIMUM STATISTICS; NOISE CONDITIONS; NOISE ESTIMATION; NOISE ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; NOISE POWER; NOISE SUPPRESSION; NOISE TRACKING; NOISE-POWER ESTIMATION; NONSTATIONARY NOISE; REFINEMENT PROCESS;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 70349225970     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960610     Document Type: Conference Paper

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