• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.48-55
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• 2001

A novel method to reduce additive non-stationary noise is proposed. The method requires neither the information about noise nor the estimate of the noise statistics from any pause regions. The enhancement is performed on a band-by-band basis for each time frame. Based on both the decision on whether a particular band in a frame is speech or noise dominant and the masking property of the human auditory system, an appropriate amount of noise is reduced using spectral subtraction. The proposed method was tested on various noisy conditions (car noise, Fl6 noise, white Gaussian noise, pink noise, tank noise and babble noise) and on the basis of comparing segmental SNR with spectral subtraction method and visually inspecting the enhanced spectrograms and listening to the enhanced speech, the method was able to effectively reduce various noise while minimizing distortion to speech.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.374-379
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• 2002

In this paper, a nobel method to reduce noise using voice/unvoice classification is proposed. Voice and unvoice are an important feature of speech and the proposed method processes noisy speech differently for each voice/unvoice part. Speech is classified into voice/unvoice using zero-crossing rate and energy, and a modified speech/noise dominant-decision is proposed based on voice/unvoice classification. The proposed method was tested on conditions of white noise and airplane noise, and on the basis of comparing segmental SNR with the existing method and listening to the enhanced speech, a performance of the proposed method was superior to that of the existing method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.27-30
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 기존에 쓰이던 주파수차감법과 다른 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 다루는 방법은, 특정한 주파수의 대역에서 음성과 잡음의 우세도를 결정하고, 인간의 청각기와 관련된 매스킹 성질을 기반으로 하여 주파수 차감법을 이용해 제거한다. 이에 대하여 다양한 성능 평가를 하였고, 기존의 일반적인 주파수차감법과 비교하여 보다 효과적으로 잡음처리를 할 수 있음을 알 수 있다.