• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.76-85
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• 1994

A speech enhancement algorithm which attenuates nonstationary colored noise is presented In this paper. The algorithm consists of a stationary Kalman filter and the simple speech/nonspeech detector. While the conventional enhancement systems are focused on a stationary and/or white background noise, this study Is focused on the mort realistic nonstationary and nonwhite noise. An AR model-based vector Kalman filter is used as a noise suppression system and a short-time energy threshold logic is used as a speech/nonspeech classifier. For Kalman filtering. noise coefficients are estimated in the nonspeech frame, and speech coefficients are estimated by applying the EM iteration algorithm. Simulation results using the car noise are presented based on the signal-to-noise ratio and informal listening tests. According to the experimental results, background noises in the nonspeech frames are eliminated almost completely, while some distortions are noticed in the speech frames. The distortion becomes severer as the SNR is reduced to 0dB and -5dB. Intelligibility, however, is not degraded significantly.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10d
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• pp.502-504
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• 2002

군중잡음(crowd noise)이 발생하는 환경에서 음성 통화 및 화자 인식을 할 때에는 음성에 파열음이나 마찰음과 같은 유색잡음(colored noise)이 부가되어 원래 음성이 왜곡된다. 이와 같이 왜곡된 음성 신호를 처리할 때에는 군중잡음을 제거하는 과정이 반드시 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 군중잡음의 특성을 분석하고, 그 결과를 이용하여 음성 신호처리 시에 효과적으로 군중잡음만을 제거할 수 있는 모델을 제안한다. 제안된 모델은 시간 영역에서는 침묵 구간을 검출하여 마찰음과 파열음을 제거하는 과정과 주파수 영역에서는 잡음 평균을 생성하고 이를 이용한 스펙트럼 차감법(spectral subtraction)으로 군중 잡음을 제거하는 과정으로 이루어진다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.214-230
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• 1998

We investigate noise-induced transitions in active rotator model with a fluctuating threshold in the presence of an additive noise. The fluctuation of the threshold depends on the additive noise in a nonlinear fashion. In the white-noise limit of the fluctuation, the Fokker-Planck equation of the system reduces to that of the system with correlated linear fluctuation implying that the nonlinearity may be transformed into the correlation of linear noises. We also investigate the system with a nonlinear colored noise which depends on the additive noise as its square. The system shows a single peak, two peaks, and three peaks in its steady state probability distribution according to the noise intensities and the correlation time whose change leads to peak-creating, peak-splitting, and peak-merging transitions.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.3 s.303
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• pp.121-128
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• 2005

On the research field for speech signal, neural network mainly uses for the category classification in speech recognition and applies to signal processing. Accordingly, this paper proposes a noise reduction system using a time-delay neural network, which implements the mapping from the space of speech signal degraded by noise to the space of clean speech signal. It is confirmed that this method is effective for speech degraded not only by white noise but also by colored noise using the noise reduction system, which restores the amplitude component of fast Fourier transform.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.516-524
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• 2007

In order to use limited frequency resources efficiently, a single frequency network using digital on-channel repeater(DOCR) has been studied and would be implemented. The DOCR generates strong pre-ghosts to ATSC DTV receivers. The forward filter of equalizer in ATSC DTV receivers compensates the distortion made by pre-ghosts. This process induces noise enhancement and colored noise, thereby results in the performance degradation. In this paper we propose to use a dual-feedback equalizer to combat strong pre-ghosts. The proposed equalizer has two feedback filters. One is the decision feedback filter and the other is non-decision feedback filter. The additional non-decision feedback filter decreases the noise by whitening the noise and preventing the generation of colored noise in pre-ghost channel. Thus the equalization technique of dual-feedback structure has performance enhancement in pre-ghost channel in comparison with conventional decision feedback equalizer(DFE). By simulation we analyzed the performance enhancements of DTV receiver using dual-feedback equalization structure.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.2339-2347
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• 1997

The performance of the adaptive noise canceller using LMS algorithm is degraded by the gradient noise due to target speech signals. An adaptive noise canceller with speech detector was proposed to reduce this performande degradation. The speech detector utilized the adaptive prediction-error filter adapted by the NLMS algorithm. This paper discusses to enhance the performance of the adaptive noise canceller forthecorlored noise. The affine projection algorithm, which is known as faster than NLMS algorithm for correlated signals, is used to adapt the adaptive filter and the adaptive prediction error filter. When the voice signals are detected by the speech detector, coefficients of adaptive filter are adapted by the sign-error afine projection algorithm which is modified to reduce the miaslignment of adaptive filter coefficients. Otherwirse, they are adapted by affine projection algorithm. To obtain better performance, the proper step size of sign-error affine projection algorithm is discussed. As resutls of computer simulation, it is shown that the performance of the proposed ANC is better than that of conventional one.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.08a
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• pp.225-230
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• 1998

In this paper, a Kalman filter approach for enhancing speech signals degraded by statistically independent additive nonstationary noise is developed. The autoregressive hidden markov model is used for modeling the statistical characteristics of both the clean speech signal and the nonstationary noise process. In this case, the speech enhancement comprises a weighted sum of conditional mean estimators for the composite states of the models for the speech and noise, where the weights equal to the posterior probabilities of the composite states, given the noisy speech. The conditional mean estimators use a smoothing spproach based on two Kalmean filters with Markovian switching coefficients, where one of the filters propagates in the forward-time direction with one frame. The proposed method is tested against the noisy speech signals degraded by Gaussian colored noise or nonstationary noise at various input signal-to-noise ratios. An app개ximate improvement of 4.7-5.2 dB is SNR is achieved at input SNR 10 and 15 dB. Also, in a comparison of conventional and the proposed methods, an improvement of the about 0.3 dB in SNR is obtained with our proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.201-204
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• 2000

음성신호에 섞인 잡음을 처리하기 위해서 단 일 마이크로폰을 이용한 방법이 많이 연구되고 있는데, 그 중에서 Kalman 필터를 이용한 방법은 먼저 음성신호의 모델을 검출하고 잡음이 섞인 신호에서 표준 Kalman 필터를 이용해서 음성신호 성분만을 검출하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 음성신호에 섞인 유색잡음을 백색화하는 방법을 적용하여 Kalman 필터의 잡음제거 성능을 향상시키는 방법을 제안하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.423-426
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• 2003

Adaptive algorithm used in Acoustic Echo Canceller (AEC) needs fast convergence algorithm when reference signal is colored speech signal. Set-Membership Affine Projection (SMAP) algorithm is derived from the constraint, which is the minimum value adaptive filter coefficient error. In this paper, we test the characteristic about noise of the SMAP algorithm and proposed modified version of SMAP algorithm fur using at AEC. As the projection order increase, the convergence characteristic of the SMAP algorithm is improved where no noise space. But if the noise uncorrelated with input signal exists, the AEC shows bad performance. In this paper, we propose normalized version of adaptive constants using estimated error signal for robust to noise and show the good performance through AEC simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07d
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• pp.2983-2985
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• 2005

There are many factors to degrade the performance of power-line communication systems such as multi-path fading, attenuation, colored and impulsive noise, and interference. Most of all, impulsive noise is generated by switching operation of many power supply units and equipments, and it causes both burst error and random error as the pattern of generation. In this paper, the variations of performance for RS convolutional concatenated coded system are simulated and analysed with the several parameters over impulsive noise channel.