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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

Speech Enhancement with Impact Noise Activity Detection Based on the Kurtosis of an Instantaneous Power Spectrum

Naoto SASAOKA, Naoya HAMAHASHI, Yoshio ITOH

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In a speech enhancement system for impact noise, it is important for any impact noise activity to be detected. However, because impact noise occurs suddenly, it is not always easy to detect. We propose a method for impact noise activity detection based on the kurtosis of an instantaneous power spectrum. The continuous duration of a generalized impact noise is shorter than that of speech, and the power of such impact noise varies dramatically. Consequently, the distribution of the instantaneous power spectrum of impact noise is different from that of speech. The proposed detection takes advantage of kurtosis, which depends on the sharpness and skirt of the distribution. Simulation results show that the proposed noise activity detection improves the performance of the speech enhancement system.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E100-A No.9 pp.1942-1950
Publication Date
2017/09/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E100.A.1942
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Digital Signal Processing

Authors

Naoto SASAOKA
  Tottori University
Naoya HAMAHASHI
  Tottori University
Yoshio ITOH
  Tottori University

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