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Signal Processing
Volume 83, Issue 8, August 2003, Pages 1613-1631
 
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Spectral-subtraction speech enhancement in multirate systems with and without non-uniform and adaptive bandwidths

T. GülzowE-mail The Corresponding Author, 1, T. LudwigE-mail The Corresponding Author and U. HeuteCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author

Institute for Circuits and Systems Theory, Faculty of Engineering, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Kaiserstrasse 2, D-24143, Kiel, Germany

Received 17 June 2002; 
revised 24 February 2003. 
Available online 22 April 2003.

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Abstract

The method of spectral subtraction is widely used for single-channel speech enhancement, if the speech signal is corrupted by additive noise. It is based on the manipulation of the magnitude of the noisy-speech spectrum. Most realizations use fixed, uniformly-spaced frequency transformations or, equivalently, filter banks with identical sampling rates in each frequency band. In this paper, we generalize the basic structure: Different filter-bank systems with non-uniform and, especially, non-constant, signal-adaptive spectral resolutions and, therefore, different sampling rates are examined. An efficient realization of a time-varying band allocation is proposed. The arising problems are discussed and the enhancement results are compared to each other and to those obtained with uniform spectral transformations.

Author Keywords: Noise reduction; Spectral subtraction; Filterbanks; Adaptive bandwidths

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Spectral subtraction
2.1. Basic idea
2.2. Method due to Boll
2.3. Method due to Ephraim and Malah
3. Spectral subtraction in multirate systems
3.1. Basic structure
3.2. Generalized structure
3.3. Special considerations for multirate systems
4. Spectral subtraction with DFT-based transformations
4.1. Uniform frequency resolution
4.2. Non-uniform frequency resolution
4.3. Experiments
5. Spectral subtraction with wavelet-based transformations
5.1. Discrete wavelet transformation
5.2. Realizations
5.2.1. Realization with a filterbank
5.2.2. Realization with the DFT
5.3. Computational load
5.4. Experiments
5.4.1. Realization with the subtraction rule due to Boll
5.4.2. Realization with the subtraction rule due to Ephraim and Malah
5.5. Discrete wavelet-packet transformation
5.5.1. Discrete wavelet-packet analysis
5.5.2. Discrete wavelet-packet basis
5.5.3. Discrete wavelet-packet synthesis
5.6. Experiments
5.6.1. Realization
5.6.2. Filter selection
5.6.3. Different time-frequency resolutions
6. Spectral subtraction with adaptive bandwidths
6.1. Idea
6.2. Realization
6.3. Experiments
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
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Signal Processing
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