TR2008-075

Regularized Non-Negative Matrix Factorization With Temporal Dependencies for Speech Denoising

    •  Wilson, K.W., Raj, B., Smaragdis, P., "Regularized Non-negative Matrix Factorization with Temporal Dependencies for Speech Denoising", Interspeech, September 2008.
      BibTeX TR2008-075 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Wilson2008sep,
      • author = {Wilson, K.W. and Raj, B. and Smaragdis, P.},
      • title = {Regularized Non-negative Matrix Factorization with Temporal Dependencies for Speech Denoising},
      • booktitle = {Interspeech},
      • year = 2008,
      • month = sep,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2008-075}
      • }
  • Research Area:

    Speech & Audio

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A toy example showing the advantage of regularizing across frames. Each panel is a spectrogram, where the horizontal axis represents time and the vertical axis represents frequency.
Abstract:

We present a technique for denoising speech using temporally regularized nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). In previous work [1], we used a regularized NMF update to impose structure within each audio frame. In this paper, we add frame-to-frame regularization across time and show that this additional regularization can also improve our speech denoising results. We evaluate our algorithm on a range of nonstationary noise types and outperform a state-of-the-art Wiener filter implementation.

 

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