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Paper:SP-L10.6
Session:Multichannel Speech Enhancement
Time:Friday, May 21, 14:40 - 15:00
Presentation: Lecture
Topic: Speech Processing: Speech Enhancement
Title: NOISE SUPPRESSION FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS BASED ON DIRECTIONAL INFORMATION
Authors: Martin Fuchs; Temic SDS 
 Tim Haulick; Temic SDS 
 Gerhard Schmidt; Temic SDS 
Abstract: In noise suppression systems for automotive applications the use of adaptive beamformers has proven to be of great potential. Nevertheless, in diffuse noise fields the amount of noise attenuation is rather limited and depends on the number of microphones. In order to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio further, additional classical noise suppression schemes, like spectral subtraction, are often applied. Unfortunately, these schemes tend to introduce either speech distortions or leave a large amount of residual noise. In this paper we describe a method of extracting additional spatial information from a conventional beamformer in generalized sidelobe structure. This spatial information can be utilized, e.g., to control parameters like overestimation or spectral floor of classical noise suppression schemes in a frequency selective manner or to compute a simple attenuation factor for suppressing nonstationary noise. An outlook is given on further usage of the spatial information in other algorithmic parts of a hands-free telephone or a speech recognition system.
 
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