Study on Method for Estimating F0 of Steady Complex Tone in Noisy Reverberant Environments

Author

Miwa, Kenichiro ; Unoki, Masashi

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci., Japan Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Nomi, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

16-18 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

456

Lastpage

459

Abstract

This paper proposes a method for robustly and accurately estimating fundamental frequency (F0) of the steady complex tone on the basis of an amplitude modulation/demodulation technique. It is based on the well-known mechanism of pitch perception for AM tone. The comparative results revealed that the percentage correct rates of the estimated F0s using a few recent methods (TEMPO, PHIA, and CmpCep) were drastically reduced as the SNR decreased and as the reverberation time increased. The results also demonstrated that the proposed method robustly and accurately estimated F0 in both noisy and reverberant environments.

Keywords

amplitude modulation; demodulation; frequency estimation; reverberation; speech processing; AM tone; F0 estimation; SNR; amplitude modulation-demodulation technique; fundamental frequency estimation; noisy reverberant environments; pitch perception; signal-to-noise ratio; steady complex tone; Demodulation; Frequency estimation; Frequency modulation; Harmonic analysis; Noise measurement; Robustness; Speech; F0 estimation; amplitude demodulation; amplitude modulation; complex tone; noisy reverberant environments;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, 2013 Ninth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IIH-MSP.2013.119

Filename

6846675