• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.41 no.9
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• pp.1021-1030
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• 1992

When using a least squares estimator with exponential forgetting factor to identify continuous-time deterministic system, the problem of determining minimum eigenvalue is described in this paper. It is well known fact that the convergence rate of parameter estimates relies on various factors consisting of the estimator and especially, theirproperties can be directly affected by all eigenvalues in the parameter error differential equation. Fortunately, there exists only one adjusting eigenvalue in the given estimator and then, the parameter convergence rates depend on this minimum eigenvalue. In this note, a new result to determine the minimum eigenvalue is proposed. Under the assumption that the input has as many spectral lines as the number of parameter estimates, it can be proven that the minimum eigenvalue converges to a constant value, which is a function of the forgetting factor and the parameter estimates number.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.4E
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• pp.154-158
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• 2006

In this paper, we suggest a noise estimation method for speech enhancement in nonstationary noisy environments. The proposed method consists of the following two main processes. First, in order to receive fewer affect of variable signals, a best fitting regression line is used, which is obtained by applying a least squares method to coefficient magnitudes in a node with a uniform wavelet packet transform. Next, in order to update the noise estimation efficiently, a differential forgetting factor and a correlation coefficient per subband are used, where subband is employed for applying the weighted value according to the change of signals. In particular, this method has the ability to update the noise estimation by using the estimated noise at the previous frame only, without utilizing the statistical information of long past frames and explicit nonspeech frames by voice activity detector. In objective assessments, it was observed that the performance of the proposed method was better than that of the compared (minima controlled recursive averaging, weighted average) methods. Furthermore, the method showed a reliable result even at low SNR.