Dual microphone noise PSD estimation for mobile phones in hands-free position exploiting the coherence and speech presence probability

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7279-7283

  Nelke, Christoph Matthias ^a   Beaugeant, Christophe ^b   Vary, Peter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

coherence estimation; dual microphone noise PSD estimation; noise reduction; speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; COHERENCE ESTIMATION; COHERENCE PROPERTIES; DUAL MICROPHONES; NOISE POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; NOISY SPEECH SIGNALS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; TARGET SIGNALS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; ESTIMATION; MICROPHONES; MOBILE PHONES; NOISE ABATEMENT; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84890486468     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639076     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (21)

1. R. Martin, "Noise power spectral density estimation based on optimal smoothing and minimum statistics," IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 504-512, 2001.
2. R.C. Hendriks, R. Heusdens, and J. Jensen, "MMSE based noise PSD tracking with low complexity," in Proc. of IEEE Intern. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Process. (ICASSP), Dallas, Texas, USA, 2010.
3. T. Gerkmann and R. Hendriks, "Noise power estimation based on the probability of speech presence," in Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, NY, USA, 2011.
4. M. Jeub, C.M. Nelke, H. Kruger, C. Beaugeant, and P. Vary, "Robust dual-channel noise power spectral density estimation," in Proc. of European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO), Barcelona, Spain, 2011.
5. B.F. Cron and C. H. Sherman, "Spatial-correlation functions for various noise models," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 1732-1736, 1962.
6. M. Brandstein and D. Ward, Microphone Arrays-Signal Processing Techniques and Applications, Springer Verlag, 2001.
7. M. Jeub, Joint Dereverberation and Noise Reduction for Binaural Hearing Aids and Mobile Phones, PhD Thesis, IND, RWTH Aachen, Aug. 2012.
8. M. Jeub, C.M. Nelke, C. Beaugeant, and P. Vary, "Blind estimation of the coherent-to-diffuse energy ratio from noisy speech signals," in Proc. of European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO), Barcelona, Spain, 2011.
9. J.S. Erkelens, R.C. Hendriks, and R. Heusdens, "On the estimation of complex speech DFT coefficients without assuming independent real and imaginary parts," Signal Processing Letters, IEEE, vol. 15, pp. 213-216, 2008.
10. T. Esch and P. Vary, "Efficient musical noise suppression for speech enhancement system," in Proc. of IEEE Intern. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Process. (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, 2009.
11. ETSI EG 201 377-2, "Speech processing, transmission and quality aspects (STQ); Specification and measurement of speech transmission quality; Part 2: Mouth-to-ear speech transmission quality including terminals," April 2004.
12. ETSI EG 202 396-1, "Speech and multimedia transmission quality (STQ); Part 1: Background noise simulation technique and background noise database," March 2009.
13. P. Kabal, "TSP speech database," Tech. Rep., Department of Electrical &Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2002.
14. J. Taghia, J. Taghia, N. Mohammadiha, J. Sang, V. Bouse, and R. Martin, "An evaluation of noise power spectral density estimation algorithms in adverse acoustic environments," in Proc. of IEEE Intern. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Process. (ICASSP), Prague, Czech Republic, 2011.
15. S. Gustafsson, R. Martin, P. Jax, and P. Vary, "A psychoacoustic approach to combined acoustic echo cancellation and noise reduction," vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 245-256, July 2002.
16. ANSI S3.5-1997, "Methods for the calculation of the speech intelligibility index," 1997.
17. T. Gerkmann and R.C. Hendriks, "Unbiased MMSE-based noise power estimation with low complexity and low tracking delay," IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 1383-1393, 2011.
18. M. Dorbecker and S. Ernst, "Combination of two-channel spectral subtraction and adaptive wiener post-filtering for noise reduction and dereverberation," in Proc. of European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO), Trieste, Italy, 1996.
19. N. Yousefian and P. Loizou, "A dual-microphone speech enhancement algorithm based on the coherence function," IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 599-609, 2012.
20. N. Yousefian and P. C. Loizou, "A dual-microphone algorithm that can cope with competing-talker scenarios," IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 143-153, 2013.
21. O. Thiergart, G. Del Galdo, and E.A.P. Habets, "Signal-toreverberant ratio estimation based on the complex spatial coherence between omnidirectional microphones," in Proc. of IEEE Intern. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Process. (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, 2012.