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Two-Channel Noise Reduction Using Beamforming and DOA-Based Masking

빔포밍 및 DOA 기반의 마스킹을 이용한 2채널 잡음제거

  • Received : 2012.07.30
  • Accepted : 2012.08.17
  • Published : 2013.01.31
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a multi-channel speech enhancement algorithm using beamforming and direction-of-arrival (DOA)-based masking. The proposed algorithm enhances noisy speech basically by the linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) algorithm and then a mel-scale Wiener filter designed using DOA-based masking is applied to remove still remaining noises. To improve the performance, we optimize the learning rate of the adaptive filters in LCMV and the DOA threshold to detect target speech spectrum. As performance indices, the perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) score and output SNRs are measured. Experimantal results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional LCMV beamformer by 0.09 in PESQ score and 5.75 dB in output SNR, respectively.

본 논문에서는 빔포밍과 입사각분석 기반 마스킹을 이용한 다채널 음성개선 알고리즘이 제안된다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 LCMV 빔포밍을 수행한 후에 입사각 분석을 이용한 멜-주파수 위너필터가 적용되어 잔존하는 잡음을 제거한다. 성능 향상을 위해서 빔포밍의 적응 필터 학습률과 목표 음성 스펙트럼 검출을 위한 입사각 임계치가 최적화된다. 성능 지수로서 PESQ와 출력 SNR이 측정되었으며 실험 결과 제안한 알고리즘이 종전의 최소분산 빔포밍 기법보다 PESQ 관점에서 0.09, 출력 SNR 관점에서 5.75 dB의 성능 향상시킴을 알 수 있었다.

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