Eigen Beamforming
Eigen Beamforming
Eigen Beamforming
EIGENBEAMFORMING
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NOISE REDUCTION
Noise reduction techniques intend to mitigate the effect of additive noise. This
noise can come from various sources and can profoundly affect the processing and
perception of speech signals in voice communication. Noise reduction is typically formulated as an estimation problem where the optimal estimate of the clean speech is
achieved by optimizing some criteria,such as the mean-squared error (MSE) between
the clean speech and its estimate, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the a posteriori
probability of the clean speech given its noisy observations, etc.
The complexity of this problem depends on the number of accessible microphones.
Most of todays communication terminals are equipped with only one microphone.
Existing single-channel noise reduction techniques fall into one of the following three
classes [17]: filtering, spectral restoration, and model-based methods. The basic
principle underlying the filtering technique is to pass the noisy speech through a
filter/transformation. Since speech and noise normally have very different characteristics, the filter/transformation can be designed to significantly attenuate the
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