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A Probabilistic Combination Method of Minimum Statistics and Soft Decision for Robust Noise Power Estimation in Speech Enhancement

강인한 음성향상을 위한 Minimum Statistics와 Soft Decision의 확률적 결합의 새로운 잡음전력 추정기법

  • 박윤식 (인하대학교 전자전기공학부) ;
  • 장준혁 (인하대학교 전자전기공학부)
  • Published : 2007.05.31
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Abstract

This paper presents a new approach to noise estimation to improve speech enhancement in non-stationary noisy environments. The proposed method combines the two separate noise power estimates provided by the minimum statistics (MS) for speech presence and soft decision (SD) for speech absence in accordance with SAP (Speech Absence Probability) on a separate frequency bin. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by the subjective test under various noise environments and yields better results compared with the conventional MS or SD-based schemes.

본 논문에서는 비정상적인 잡음 환경에서 음성향상을 위한 새로운 잡음 추정 기법을 제시한다. 제안된 방법은 잡음 전력 추정을 위해 주파수 채널별 음성부재확률 (SAP, Speech Absence Probability)을 선택적 가중 파라미터로 적용하여 음성 구간에서는 기존의 Minimum Statistics (MS)에 의한 잡음전력 추정치에 비중을 두고 비음성 구간에서는 Soft Decision (SD)에 기반한 잡음전력 추정치를 선택하도록 기존의 알고리즘을 결합한다. 제안된 알고리즘의 성능은 다양한 잡음 환경에서 음성향상기법에 적용하여 주관적인 음질평가 결과에 의해 평가하여 기존의 MS 또는 SD에 기반한 방법보다 향상된 결과를 나타내었다.

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