ICASSP 2006 - May 15-19, 2006 - Toulouse, France

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Paper:SPTM-L3.1
Session:Applications to Speech and Audio
Time:Tuesday, May 16, 16:30 - 16:50
Presentation: Lecture
Topic: Signal Processing Theory and Methods: Signal Restoration, Reconstruction, and Enhancement
Title: A PERCEPTUAL APPROACH TO REDUCE MUSICAL NOISE PHENOMENON WITH WIENER DENOISING TECHNIQUE
Authors: Sofia Ben Jebara, Ecole Supérieure des Communications, Tunisia
Abstract: Traditional denoising techniques, powerful in term of noise reduction, have the drawback of generating an annoying musical noise. This paper addresses the problem of enhancing speech in highly noisy environments using perceptual considerations. The post-processing technique we develop, consider the masking threshold of both noisy speech and the denoised one, to detect musical noise components. Next, to make them inaudible, detected musical noise candidates are set under the noise masking threshold and their closest neighbors are smoothed. Extensive subjective and objective tests have shown that, after enhancement, the musical noise is well reduced even at very low signal to noise ratios.



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