A data-driven approach to a priori SNR estimation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 186-195

  Suhadi, Suhadi ^a   Last, Carsten ^a   Fingscheidt, Tim ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data driven approach; decision directed (DD) a priori signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimation; noise reduction; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BROKEN DOWN; DATA-DRIVEN; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; DECISION-DIRECTED; ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUES; INPUT SIGNAL; LOOK UP TABLE; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; MINIMUM MEAN-SQUARE ERROR; NOISE ATTENUATION; NOISE REDUCTIONS; PRIORI SNR; SNR ESTIMATORS; SPECTRAL AMPLITUDE; SPEECH DISTORTION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM; SUPER-GAUSSIAN; WIENER FILTERS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 77957737243     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2045799     Document Type: Article

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