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Dereverberation methods based on coherent-to-diffuse power ratio (CDR) estimates exploit the spatial properties of signals to suppress late reverberation components. Naturally, the quality of the CDR estimate has a major effect on the quality of the dereverberated signals. This paper presents a statistical study of the performance of state-of-the-art CDR estimators under a Gaussian signal model. The...
Currently, a quantitative prediction of the performance of the frequency shifting (FS) approach for stabilizing acoustic feedback loops of public address (PA) systems is only possible in case of negligibly small direct sound components in the feedback path. By employing a statistical room acoustics model, this letter derives a novel analytical expression for the additional stable gain (ASG) with the...
This paper proposes to extend the bandwidth of speech acquired by a system combining laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) and an auxiliary microphone in adverse environments, where this system is referred to as LDV-AM. Traditional bandwidth extension (BWE) algorithms often need two stages to estimate the broadband spectral envelope. In the first stage, the codebook of the broadband spectral envelope is...
Most previously proposed dual-channel coherent-to-diffuse-ratio (CDR) estimators are based on a free-field model. When used for binaural signals, e.g., for dereverberation in binaural hearing aids, their performance may degrade due to the influence of the head, even when the direction-of-arrival of the desired speaker is exactly known. In this paper, the head shadowing effect is taken into account...
For two nearby microphones, adaptive null-forming (ANF) scheme is a simple and effective algorithm for suppressing directional noise sources. In this paper, we analyze the robustness of the time-domain ANF (TD-ANF) and the frequency-domain ANF (FD-ANF) schemes in theory. The analysis reveals several distinctive phenomena. First, the two ANF schemes reduce the amount of interference-plus-noise reduction...
This paper studies the statistical properties of the gain functions, which are often used for two-channel post-filtering (TC-PF) algorithms. We reveal that the smoothing factor has a significant impact on both noise reduction and musical noise. When the smoothing factor increases, noise reduction can be improved and musical noise can be reduced simultaneously. However, the smoothing factor could not...
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