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In this thesis, we present novel methods to enhance speech corrupted by noise. All methods are based on the processing of complex-valued spectral data. First, kernel principal component analysis (PCA) for speech enhancement is proposed. Subsequently, a simplification of kernel PCA, called pre-image iterations (PI), is derived. This method computes enhanced feature vectors iteratively by linear combination of noisy feature vectors. The weighting for the linear combination is found by a kernel function that measures the similarity between the feature vectors. The kernel variance is a key parameter for the degree of de-noising and has to be set according to the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Initially, PI were proposed for speech corrupted by additive white Gaussian ... toggle 4 keywords

speech enhancement speech de-noising kernel pca automatic speech recognition

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Author
Leitner, Christina
Institution
Graz University of Technology
Supervisors
Publication Year
2013
Upload Date
Nov. 10, 2015

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