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Non-Linear Spectral Subtraction with Combined Smoothing Strategies for Broadband Noise Reduction

A broadband noise reduction method based on non-linear spectral subtraction is proposed. To prevent processing distortions in form of musical noise, over-subtraction is applied to the degraded signal spectrum. Furthermore, time-averaging is used to reduce the variance of the estimated signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). A masking threshold obtained by spectral smoothing leads to further reduction of audible processing distortions.

Authors: Hoeldrich, Robert; Lorber, Markus
Affiliation: Institute of Elcctronic Music Cyraz, Graz, Austria
AES Convention:103 (September 1997) Paper Number:4611 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Sound Restoration and Archiving

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