Phase randomization - A new paradigm for single-channel signal enhancement

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7487-7491

  Sugiyama, Akihiko ^a   Miyahara, Ryoji ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digital still camera; Noise suppressor; Random phase; Residual noise; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STILL CAMERAS; ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNALS; NOISE SUPPRESSORS; RANDOM-PHASE; RESIDUAL NOISE; SINGLE-CHANNEL SIGNALS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84890503044     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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