Experimental Study of Generalized Subspace Filters for the Cocktail Party Situation

Knud Bank Christensen; Mads Græsbøll Christensen; Jesper B. Boldt; Fredrik Gran

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7471709

Experimental Study of Generalized Subspace Filters for the Cocktail Party Situation

Knud Bank Christensen, Mads Græsbøll Christensen, Jesper B. Boldt, Fredrik Gran

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Abstract

This paper investigates the potential performance of generalized
subspace filters for speech enhancement in cocktail party
situations with very poor signal/noise ratio, e.g. down to
-15 dB. Performance metrics output signal/noise ratio, signal/
distortion ratio, speech quality rating and speech intelligibility
rating are mapped as functions of two algorithm parameters,
revealing clear trade-off options between noise, distortion
and subjective performances and a recommended choice
of trade-off. Given sufficiently good noise statistics, SNR
improvements around 20 dB as well as PESQ quality and
STOI intelligibility rating improvements exceeding 1.0 and
0.2 points respectively are found. This shows the potential of
the method.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings IEEE ICASSP 2016
Number of pages	5
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7471709
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	The 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Shanghai, China Duration: 20 Mar 2016 → 25 Mar 2016 http://www.icassp2016.org/

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Conference	The 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Country/Territory	China
City	Shanghai
Period	20/03/2016 → 25/03/2016
Internet address	http://www.icassp2016.org/

Series	I E E E International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Proceedings
ISSN	1520-6149

Keywords

Speech enhancement, subspace signal processing, optimal filtering, babble noise, cocktail party

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Christensen, KB, Christensen, MG, Boldt, JB & Gran, F 2016, Experimental Study of Generalized Subspace Filters for the Cocktail Party Situation. in Proceedings IEEE ICASSP 2016. IEEE, I E E E International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Proceedings, The 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Shanghai, China, 20/03/2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7471709

Experimental Study of Generalized Subspace Filters for the Cocktail Party Situation. / Christensen, Knud Bank; Christensen, Mads Græsbøll; Boldt, Jesper B. et al.
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