• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1985년도 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.87-94
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• 1985

In this paper, enhancement of speech corrupted by additive white or colored noise is stuided. The nuconstrained frequency-domain block least-mean-square (UFBLMS) adaptation algorithm and its frequency-weighted version are newly applied to speech enhancement. For enhancement of speech degraded by white noise, the performance of the UFBLMS algorithm is superior to the spectral subtraction method or Wiener filtering technique by more than 3 dB in segmented frequency-weighted signal-to-noise ratio(FWSNERSEG) when SNR of speech is in the range of 0 to 10 dB. As for enhancement of noisy speech corrupted by colored noise, the UFBLMS algorithm is superior to that of the spectral subtraction method by about 3 to 5 dB in FWSNRSEG. Also, it yields better performance by about 2 dB in FWSNR and FWSNRSEG than that of time-domain least-mean-square (TLMS) adaptive prediction filter(APF). In view of the computational complexity and performance improvement in speech quality and intelligibility, the frequency-weighted UFBLMS algorithm appears to yield the best performance among various algorithms in enhancing noisy speech corrupted by white or colored noise.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.169-174
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 서브밴드 백색화 필터를 이용한 새로운 부공간 잡음제거 방법을 제안하였다. 기존의 부공간 접근방법에서는 백색 잡음을 가정하거나, 유색 잡음에 대한 전처리로서 백색화 필터를 사용하였다. 백색화 필터를 서브밴드로 나누어 처리함으로써, 제안된 방법은 잔여잡음을 줄이면서 신호 왜곡의 상한값을 최소화하도록 설계하였다. 또한 서브밴드 백색화 필터를 도입함으로써 부공간 잡음제거 방법에서 약점으로 지적되는 것 중의 하나인 Karhunen-Loeve(KL) 영역에서의 주파수 해상도를 높일 수 있었다. 실험결과에 의하면 제안된 방법은 Ephraim에 의해 제안된 방법 부공간 잡음 제거 방법이나, Boll에 의해 제안된 주파수 차감법에 비해 구분 신호대 잡음 비 (SNRseg: segmental signal-to-noise ratio), 음성의 인지적 성능 평가 (PESQ: perceptual evaluation of speech quality)를 고려하였을 때 향상된 성능을 보였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.599-602
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• 1998

In this paper, a speech enhancement method based on phonemic properties and masking effect is propsoed. It is a modified type of spectral subtraction wherein the spectral sharpening process is exploited in unvoiced state considering the phonemic properties. The masking threshold is used to remove the residual noise. The proposed spectral subtraction shows similar performance as that of the classical spectral subtraction method in view of the SNR. But by the prposed scheme, the unvoiced sound region is shown to exhibit relatively less signal distortion in the enhanced speech.

• 음성과학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.77-84
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• 2003

In this research, we seek the beginning of the speech and detect the stationary speech region using lip information. Performing running average of the estimated speech signal in the stationary region, we reduce the effect of musical noise which is inherent to the conventional MlMSE (Minimum Mean Square Error) speech enhancement algorithm. In addition to it, SFM (Spectral Flatness Measure) is incorporated to reduce the speech signal estimation error due to speaking habit and some lacking lip information. The proposed algorithm with Wiener filtering shows the superior performance to the conventional methods according to MOS (Mean Opinion Score) test.

• 공학논문집
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.43-46
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• 1998

지난 30년간 부가 잡음에 의해 열화된 음성신호의 개선에 관해 많은 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 잡음제거를 위한 고전적인 방법인 spectral subtraction, Wiener filter와 최근에 제안된 심리음향모델에 근거한 perceptual filter, EVRC의 잡음제거단을 성능과 구현의 복잡도 측면에서 비교하였다.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1998년도 학술발표대회 논문집 제17권 2호
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• pp.31-34
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• 1998

배경 잡음에 의해 저하된 음성을 복원하는 기술은 이미 오래 전부터 여러 가지 기법들이 연구되어왔다. 이들 기법 중, Spectral Subtraction 기법은 단일 채널에 의한 Speech Enhancement의 대표적인 방법이다. 그러나, 기존의 단일 채널 Speech Enhancement 기법의 중요한 단점은 Musical Noise라 불리는 잔존 Noise의 발생 및 목적신호가 왜곡된다는 것이다. 이 잔존 Noise에 의해 지금까지 연구 보고된 단일 채널 Speech Enhancement기법들은 거의 대부분 SNR은 향상되었지만 명료도의 향상이 곤란하였다고 보고되어왔다. 그러므로, 본 연구에서는 인간의 청각기구의 지각과정을 충실히 모방한 ROEX(Rounded Exponential) 청각 Filter를 이용하여 잔존 Noise인 Musical Noise를 억제시키는 기법을 제안하고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제23권2E호
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• pp.56-67
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• 2004

Despite abundant research outcomes of blind source separation (BSS) in many types of simulated environments, their performances are still not satisfactory to be applied to the real environments. The major obstacle may seem the finite filter length of the assumed mixing model and the nonlinear sensor noises. This paper presents a two-step speech enhancement method with multiple microphone inputs. The first step performs a frequency-domain BSS algorithm to produce multiple outputs without any prior knowledge of the mixed source signals. The second step further removes the remaining cross-channel interference by a spectral cancellation approach using a probabilistic source absence/presence detection technique. The desired primary source is detected every frame of the signal, and the secondary source is estimated in the power spectral domain using the other BSS output as a reference interfering source. Then the estimated secondary source is subtracted to reduce the cross-channel interference. Our experimental results show good separation enhancement performances on the real recordings of speech and music signals compared to the conventional BSS methods.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2011년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.122-125
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• 2011

In real environment, background noise exists everywhere and degrades the performance of system. To reduce this distortion, a speech enhancement algorithm can be very useful and variety methods have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a postfilter to improve the performance of optimally modified log-spectral amplitude (OM-LSA) estimator. Proposed algorithm uses the formant postfilter to minimize perceptual distortion caused by background noise. We adjust an emphasizing parameter which is varied by spectral flatness and first reflection coefficient. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by measuring the log-spectral distance (LSD) and the perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) score. The test results show the improvement of proposed algorithm compared to conventional OM-LSA.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제22권2E호
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• pp.87-92
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• 2003

In this paper, a new speech enhancement method using level adapted wavelet packet is presented. First, we propose a level adapted wavelet packet to alleviate a drawback of the conventional node adapted one in noisy environment. Next, we suggest an adaptive noise estimation method at each node on level adapted wavelet packet tree. Then, for more accurate noise component subtraction, we propose a new estimation method of spectral subtraction weight. Finally, we present a modified spectral subtraction method. The proposed method is evaluated on various noise conditions: speech babble noise, F-l6 cockpit noise, factory noise, pink noise, and Volvo car interior noise. For an objective evaluation, the SNR test was performed. Also, spectrogram test and a very simple listening test as a subjective evaluation were performed.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제29권2E호
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• pp.86-99
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• 2010

This paper analyzes the performance of various single channel speech enhancement algorithms when they are applied to automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems as a preprocessor. The functional modules of speech enhancement systems are first divided into four major modules such as a gain estimator, a noise power spectrum estimator, a priori signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimator, and a speech absence probability (SAP) estimator. We investigate the relationship between speech recognition accuracy and the roles of each module. Simulation results show that the Wiener filter outperforms other gain functions such as minimum mean square error-short time spectral amplitude (MMSE-STSA) and minimum mean square error-log spectral amplitude (MMSE-LSA) estimators when a perfect noise estimator is applied. When the performance of the noise estimator degrades, however, MMSE methods including the decision directed module to estimate a priori SNR and the SAP estimation module helps to improve the performance of the enhancement algorithm for speech recognition systems.