نویسندگان
1 دانشجوی دکتری، دانشکده مهندسی برق، دانشگاه یزد، یزد، ایران
2 استاد، دانشکده مهندسی برق، دانشگاه یزد، یزد، ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
One of the most widely used beamforming algorithms for the application of speech enhancement is the Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) technique. The optimal coefficients of the MVDR beamformer are calculated based on the incoherence assumption of environmental interferences and the desired signal. Due to the nature of noise and speech signals, this assumption is not valid in many practical situations. This, in turn, results in inaccurateness of derived coefficients of the MVDR. In this paper, as the first change in the MVDR beamformer, by applying the eigenvalue analysis to the desired signal covariance matrix and removing small eigenvalues, the accuracy of the beamformer coefficients is improved. As the second contribution, we use a generalized version of the Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT), namely the Short-Time Fractional Fourier Transform (STFrFT), to calculate the MVDR beamformer weights. In this research, after obtaining the optimal value of STFrFT parameter experimentally, the effect of each of the above two changes on the performance is investigated and compared with the basic methods. The results show that the proposed methods, while being stable to the changes of parameters and environmental conditions, achieve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values between and , while the performance of the baseline method is in the range of . Although each of the above changes alone improves the performance, it is noted that the superior performance is obtained when both changes are applied together on the beamformer.
کلیدواژهها [English]