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Enhancement of white Gaussian noise affected speech using VMD-ℓ 1 trend filter method

Publication Type : Conference Paper

Publisher : Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press

Source : Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press, Volume 34, Number 3, p.1701-1711 (2018)

Url : https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85044731165&doi=10.3233%2fJIFS-169463&partnerID=40&md5=309ef1348aecb798f4d5c3ce50d1dab2

Keywords : Bandpass filters, Different frequency, Gaussian distribution, Gaussian noise (electronic), Information filtering, Intrinsic Mode functions, Mean square error, Noisy speech signals, Objective quality measures, Spectral subtractions, Speech communication, Speech enhancement, Speech information, Variational mode decomposition (VMD), White Gaussian Noise, White noise

Campus : Coimbatore

School : School of Engineering

Center : Computational Engineering and Networking

Department : Electronics and Communication

Year : 2018

Abstract : In this paper, a two step approach using Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) and ℓ 1 trend filter is proposed for enhancing speech signals degraded by white Gaussian noise. In the first step, VMD decomposes the noisy speech signal into Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) corresponding to different frequency components of the signal. In the second step, ℓ 1 trend filter retrieves the speech information by filtering out the noisy sub frames. The noisy sub frames are identified using a threshold based on noise variance in the corresponding IMFs. The proposed work experiments on speech signals degraded by white Gaussian noise in the range 10dB- 30dB. The performance of proposed method is compared with some of the well known speech enhancement techniques: Spectral Subtraction (SS) and Minimized Mean Square Error (MMSE) using the subjective and objective quality measures. The proposed, two-step approach of VMD-ℓ 1 trend filter achieves better performance compared to the considered methods. © 2018 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved.

Cite this Research Publication : G. B. Gowri and Dr. Soman K. P., “Enhancement of white Gaussian noise affected speech using VMD-ℓ 1 trend filter method”, in Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, 2018, vol. 34, pp. 1701-1711.

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