Non-stationary noise power spectral density estimation based on regional statistics

Xiaofei Li, Laurent Girin, Sharon Gannot, Radu Horaud

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Abstract

Estimating the noise power spectral density (PSD) is essential for single channel speech enhancement algorithms. In this paper, we propose a noise PSD estimation approach based on regional statistics. The proposed regional statistics consist of four features representing the statistics of the past and present periodograms in a short-time period. We show that these features are efficient in characterizing the statistical difference between noise PSD and noisy speech PSD. We therefore propose to use these features for estimating the speech presence probability (SPP). The noise PSD is recursively estimated by averaging past spectral power values with a time-varying smoothing parameter controlled by the SPP. The proposed method exhibits good tracking capability for non-stationary noise, even for abruptly increasing noise level.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages181-185
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781479999880
DOIs
StatePublished - 18 May 2016
Event41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 20 Mar 201625 Mar 2016

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2016-May
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period20/03/1625/03/16

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.

Funding

FundersFunder number
Seventh Framework Programme609465

    Keywords

    • noise PSD
    • regional statistics
    • speech presence probability

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