NDLI: A Unified Framework for Designing Optimal STSA Estimators Assuming Maximum Likelihood Phase Equivalence of Speech and Noise

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Author	Borgstrom, B.J. Alwan, A.
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	In this paper, we present a stochastic framework for designing optimal short-time spectral amplitude (STSA) estimators for speech enhancement assuming phase equivalence of speech and noise. By assuming additive superposition of speech and noise, which is implied by the maximum-likelihood (ML) phase estimate, we effectively project the optimal spectral amplitude estimation problem onto a 1-D subspace of the complex spectral plane, thus simplifying the problem formulation. Assuming generalized Gamma distributions (GGDs) for a priori distributions of both speech and noise STSAs, we derive separate families of novel estimators according to either the maximum-likelihood (ML), the minimum mean-square error (MMSE), or the maximum a posteriori (MAP) criterion. The use of GGDs allows optimal estimators to be determined in a generalized form, so that particular solutions can be obtained by substituting statistical shape parameters corresponding to expected speech and noise priors. It is interesting to note that several of the proposed estimators exhibit strong similarities to well-known STSA solutions. For example, the magnitude spectral subtracter (MSS) and Wiener filter (WF) are obtained for specific cases of GGD shape parameters. Quantitative analysis of a selected subset of the proposed estimators shows improvement over the traditional log-spectral MMSE estimator of Ephraim and Malah, in terms of segmental signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the COSH distance measure, when applied to the Noizeus database. Although single-channel speech enhancement is offered as an illustrative example, the theory presented here could be applicable to other signals, such as music and images.
Sponsorship	IEEE Signal Processing Society
Starting Page	2579
Ending Page	2590
Page Count	12
File Size	439320
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15587916
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	8
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-11-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Noise Speech enhancement Maximum likelihood estimation Mathematical model speech enhancement Generalized gamma distribution (GGD) noise suppression short-time spectral amplitude (STSA) estimation spectral subtraction
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Acoustics and Ultrasonics Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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