Estimation of speech embedded in a reverberant environment with multiple sources of noise

Author

Barros, A.K. ; Itakura, Fumitada ; Rutkowski, Tomasz ; Mansour, Ali ; Ohnishi, Noboru

Author_Institution

RIKEN, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

629

Abstract

In this work we develop a system for enhancement of the speech signal with highest energy from a linear convolutive mixture of n statistically independent sound sources recorded by m microphones, where m<n. In this system we use the concept of independent component analysis (ICA) together with auditory filter banks, pitch tracking adaptive band pass filters and masking. Computer simulations and real world experiments confirm the validity of the proposed algorithm

Keywords

acoustic noise; acoustic signal processing; adaptive filters; array signal processing; channel bank filters; microphones; reverberation; speech enhancement; ICA; adaptive band pass filters; auditory filter banks; embedded speech; independent component analysis; linear convolutive mixture; masking; microphones; multiple noise sources; pitch tracking; reverberant environment; speech enhancement; statistically independent sound sources; Acoustic noise; Band pass filters; Humans; Independent component analysis; Low pass filters; Microphones; Nonlinear filters; Psychoacoustic models; Speech enhancement; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2001. Proceedings. (ICASSP '01). 2001 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7041-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2001.940910

Filename

940910