Title :
Adaptation mode control with residual noise estimation for beamformer-based multi-channel speech enhancement
Author :
Kim, Seon Man ; Kim, Hong Kook ; Lee, Sung Joo ; Lee, Yun Keun
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. & Commun., Gwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol. (GIST), Gwangju, South Korea
Abstract :
In this paper, we propose a new adaptation mode controller (AMC) for a generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) having prior knowledge of the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of a desired speech source. In order to optimize the adaptation mode of a GSC, the residual noise remaining in the GSC output must be employed for adapting the AMC. The residual noise in the GSC output is estimated by using a short-time Fourier transform (STFT)-based Wiener filter, where a priori signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a posteriori target-to-non-target-directional signal ratio (TNR) are estimated based on a decision-directed approach and a DOA-based approach, respectively. The estimated residual noise is finally incorporated as a control parameter into the adaptive filters in the AMC. The performance of the proposed AMC is evaluated by measuring the perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) scores and cepstral distortion in car noise environments with SNRs from 0 to 20 dB. Experimental results show that the proposed AMC performs better than the conventional AMCs.
Keywords :
Fourier transforms; Wiener filters; adaptive filters; cepstral analysis; noise abatement; speech enhancement; PESQ scores; STFT-based Wiener filter; adaptation mode controller; adaptive filters; beamformer-based multichannel speech enhancement; car noise environments; cepstral distortion; decision-directed approach; direction-of-arrival; generalized sidelobe canceller; noise figure 0 dB to 20 dB; residual noise estimation; short-time Fourier transform; signal-to-noise ratio; speech quality; speech source; target-to-non-target-directional signal ratio; Arrays; Cepstral analysis; Signal to noise ratio; Speech; Speech enhancement; Wiener filters; Speech enhancement; adaptation mode controller; adaptive beamformer; array signal processing; generalized sidelobe canceller;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0045-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1520-6149
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6287876