WO2002005262A2 - Sub-band exponential smoothing noise canceling system - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to noise cancellation and reduction and, more specifically, to noise cancellation and reduction using sub-band processing and exponential smoothing.
- Ambient noise added to speech degrades the performance of speech processing algorithms.
- processing algorithms may include dictation, voice activation, voice compression and other systems.
- the ambient noise also degrades the sound and voice quality and intelligibility.
- it is desired to reduce the noise and improve the signal to noise ratio (S/N ratio) without effecting the speech and its characteristics.
- Near field noise canceling microphones provide a satisfactory solution but require that the microphone be in proximity with the voice source (e.g., mouth). In many cases, this is achieved by mounting the microphone on a boom of a headset which situates the microphone at the end of a boom near the mouth of the wearer.
- headsets have proven to be either uncomfortable to wear or too restricting for operation in, for example, an automobile.
- the performance of the adaptive system will be reduced to the performance of a regular delay and sum microphone array, which is not always satisfactory.
- Another downside to the array solution is that it requires multiple microphones which has an impact on the physical size of the solution and the price. It also eliminates the capability to provide a noise reduction capability to existing systems that already have one microphone implemented and that can not add additional microphones.
- One proposed solution to further reduce the noise is the spectral subtraction technique that estimates the noise magnitude spectrum of the polluted signal by measuring it during non-speech time intervals detected by a voice switch, and then subtracting the noise magnitude spectrum from the signal.
- This method described in detail in Suppression of Acoustic Noise in Speech Using Spectral Subtraction, (Steven F Boll, IEEE ASSP-27 NO.2 April, 1979), achieves good results for stationary diffused noises that are not correlated with the speech signal.
- the spectral subtraction method creates artifacts, sometimes described as musical noise, that may reduce the performance of the speech algorithm (such as voice recording or voice activation) if the spectral subtraction is uncontrolled.
- Another problem is that the magnitude calculation of the FFT result is quite complex.
- the improved system has a threshold detector that precisely detects the positions of the noise elements, even within continuous speech segments, by determining whether frequency spectrum elements, or bins, of the input signal are within a threshold set according to a minimum value of the frequency spectrum elements over a preset period of time. More precisely, current and future minimum values of the frequency spectrum elements.
- the energy of the noise elements is determined by a separate threshold determination without examination of the overall signal energy, thereby providing good and stable estimation of the noise.
- the system preferably sets the threshold continuously and resets the threshold within a predetermined period of time of, for example, five seconds.
- the improved spectral subtraction technique performs a two-dimensional (2D) smoothing process is applied to the signal estimation.
- 2D two-dimensional
- the improved technique applies a filter multiplication to effect the subtraction.
- the filter function a Weiner filter function for example, or an approximation of the Weiner filter is multiplied by the complex data of the frequency domain audio signal.
- the present invention provides a system that correctly determines the non-speech segments of the audio signal thereby preventing erroneous processing of the noise canceling signal during the speech segments.
- the present invention provides an input for inputting a digital signal that includes a noise signal component; a band splitter for dividing the digital input signal into a number of frequency-limited time-domain signal sub-bands; a number of noise processors which correspond to each of the sub- bands such that the noise signal components in the digital input signal are canceled; and a recombiner for recombining the noise processed sub-bands into a digital output signal.
- a particular aspect of the present invention is that the input beam is split into a number of frequency-limited sub-bands, preferably 16 evenly spaced bands, by the band splitter such that noise processing is performed on each frequency band separately.
- the band splitter is , for example, a DFT filter bank that uses single side band modulation to divide the digital input signal.
- Each noise processor is made up of an exponential averager, a noise estimator, and a subtraction processor.
- the exponential averager computes a rolling average input value on the basis of a weighted average of the previous average value and the current input value.
- the noise estimator generates a band noise value by performing an exponential smoothing based on a weighted average of the previous noise value and the current input value. If the current input value, providing that the current input is considered to be noise, is greater than a predetermined multiple of a current minimum value the noise estimator does not use the input to determine the new noise estimation.
- the subtraction processor generates a filter coefficient H on the basis of the rolling average input value and the band noise value, and multiplies the current input value by the filter coefficient to generate a noise canceled value.
- the subtraction processor may perform a minimum filter coefficient threshold function. If the calculated value is below a certain minimum this certain minimum is replaced with the actual calculated value. This threshold can be used to control the amount of noise reduction. In addition, if the current input is less that a predetermined multiple of the noise threshold value an exponential smoothing of the filter coefficient is performed.
- the present invention is applicable to various noise canceling systems including, but not limited to, those systems described in the U.S. patent applications incorporated herein by reference.
- the present invention for example, is applicable with cellular phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), audio applications, automobile acoustics, headphones, and microphone arrays.
- PDAs personal digital assistants
- the present invention may be embodied as a computer program for driving a computer processor either installed as application software or as hardware.
- FIG. 2 illustrates the band splitting unit of the present invention
- FIG. 3 illustrates the noise processing unit of the present invention
- FIG 4 illustrates the noise estimation process of the present invention
- Figure 5 illustrates the subtraction process of the present invention
- Figure 6 illustrates the recombining unit of the present invention.
- Figure 1 illustrates an embodiment of the present invention 100.
- the system receives a digital audio signal at input 102 sampled at a frequency which is at least twice the bandwidth of the audio signal.
- the signal is derived from a microphone signal that has been processed through an analog front end, A/D converter and a decimation filter to obtain the required sampling frequency.
- the input is taken from the output of a beamformer or even an adaptive beamformer. In that case the signal has been processed to eliminate noises arriving from directions other than the desired one leaving mainly noises originated from the same direction of the desired one.
- the input signal can be obtained from a sound board when the processing is implemented on a PC processor or similar computer processor.
- the input signal 102 is then passed through a band splitter 104 that divides the signal into 16 time domain sub-band signals Y n (Y 0 -Y 15 ). Each sub-band is then processed by a corresponding noise processor 106 n (lO ⁇ o-lO ⁇ is).
- the noise processor acts to reduce the noise signal in each sub-band while maintaining the source (voice) signal.
- the noise processing technique is particularly suited to the occurrence of musical noise.
- the 16 noise processed sub-bands are then recombined by a recombiner 108.
- the recombiner 108 outputs a output digital audio signal 110 that corresponds to the input signal 102 only with the noise component significantly reduced.
- a particular aspect of the present invention is that the input beam 102 is split into a number of frequency-limited sub-bands by the band splitter 104 such that noise processing is performed on each frequency band separately.
- Figure 2 illustrates the band splitter 200 (Figure 1, Element 104) of the present invention.
- the generalized DFT filter bank using single side band modulation be employed as described, for example, in "Multirate Digital Signal Processing", Ronald E. Crochiere, Prentice Hall Signal Processing Series or "Multirate Digitals Filters, Filter Banks, Polyphase Networks, and Applications A tutorial", P. P. Vaidyanathan, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 78, No. 1, January 1990.
- the goal of the band splitter is to split the input signal into a plurality of limited frequency bands, preferably 16 evenly spaced bands.
- the band splitting processes, for example, 8 input points at a time resulting in 16 output points each representing 1 time domain sample per frequency band.
- other quantities of samples may be processed depending upon the processing power of the system as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art.
- the input signal 102 is collected as 8 input points 202 that are stored in a 128 tap delay line 204 representing a 128 point input vector which is multiplied via a multiplier 206 by the coefficients of a 128 point complex coefficient pre-designed filter 208.
- the 128 complex points result vector is folded by storing the multiplication result in the 128 point buffer 210 and summing the first 16 points with the second 16 points and so on using a summer 212.
- the folded result which is referred to as an aliasing sequence 214, is processed through a 16 point Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) 216.
- the output of the FFT is multiplied via a multiplier 218 by the modulation coefficients of a 16 point modulation coefficient cyclic buffer 220.
- FFT Fast Fourier Transform
- the cyclic buffer which contains, for example, 8 groups of 16 coefficients, selects a new group each cycle.
- the real portion of the multiplication result is stored in the real buffer 222 as the requested 16-point output 224. It will be appreciated that, while specific transforms are utilized in the preferred embodiments, it is of course understood that other transforms may be applied to the present invention to obtain the sub-bands.
- Each of the frequency limited sub-bands Y n 302(224) is processed by a corresponding noise processor 300(106 n ).
- Figure 3 is a detailed description of one of the noise processors 300.
- Each noise processor is comprised of an exponential averager 304, a noise estimator 308, and a subtraction processor 306. The sub-band signal is fed to each of these elements for sequential processing.
- the exponential averager 304 generates an average input value YA n , according to Equation 1.
- the time constant for the exponential averaging is typically 0.95 which may be interpreted as taking the average of the last 20 frames.
- This average input value is then passed to the noise estimator 308, followed by the subtraction processor 306, which are described hereinbelow.
- Figure 4 is a detailed description of the noise estimator 308.
- the noise should be estimated by taking a long time average of the signal over non- speech time intervals. This requires that a voice switch be used to detect the speech/non-speech intervals. However, too-sensitive a switch may result in the use of a speech signal for the noise estimation which will degrade the voice signal. On the other hand, a less sensitive switch may dramatically reduce the length of the noise time intervals (especially in continuous speech cases) and impact the validity of the noise estimation.
- a separate adaptive threshold is implemented for each sub-band 402. This allows for the noise components in each frequency limited sub-band to be individually processed. It is therefore possible to apply a non-sensitive threshold for the noise and yet locate many non-speech data points for each bin, even within a continuous speech case.
- the advantage of this method is that it allows the collection of many noise segments for a good and stable estimation of the noise, even within continuous speech segments.
- a future minimum value is initiated every 5 seconds at 404 with the current value
- the future minimum value of each band is compared with the current value of the signal. If the current value is smaller than the future minimum, the future minimum is replaced with the value which becomes the new future minimum.
- a current minimum value is calculated at 406. The current minimum is initiated every 5 seconds with the value of the future minimum that was determined over the previous 5 seconds and follows the minimum value of the signal for the next 5 seconds by comparing its value with the current value. The current minimum value is used by the subtraction process, while the future minimum is used for the initiation and refreshing of the current minimum.
- the noise estimation mechanism of the present invention ensures a tight and quick estimation of the noise value, with limited memory requirements (5 seconds), while preventing too high an estimation of the noise.
- Each sub-band's value I Y n (t)[ is compared with four times the current minimum value of that sub-band by comparator 408 — which serves as the adaptive threshold for that sub-band. If the value is within the range (hence below the threshold), it is allowed as noise and used by an exponential averaging unit 410 that determines the level of the noise N n 412 of that sub-band. If the value is above the threshold the value is discarded (i.e., it is not used in the noise estimation).
- the time constant for the exponential averaging is typically 0.95 which may be interpreted as taking the average of the last 20 frames.
- the threshold of 4*minimum value may be changed for some applications.
- FIG. 5 is a detailed description of the subtraction processor 500(306).
- the value of the estimated sub-band noise is subtracted from the current average input value.
- the subtraction is interpreted as a filter multiplication performed by filter H n (the filter coefficient).
- H n is calculated by the filter calculator 504, according to Equation 2.
- YA n is the current average value for sub-band n calculated by the exponential averager 304.
- N n is the current estimated noise for sub-band n calculated by the noise estimator 308.
- This operation smoothes the filter during periods when the signal is not significantly higher than the noise. Such is the case when there is no voice present and the musical noise is most likely to appear and interfere. The smoothing process will eliminate this musical noise.
- the input sub-bands 502(302) are then multiplied on a point-by-point basis by the corresponding filter coefficient H n to generate output noise processed sub- bands 510(310).
- Figure 6 illustrates the recombiner 600 ( Figure 1, 108) of the present invention which is symmetrical, i.e., opposite, to the sub-band splitting technique described above.
- the goal here is to recombine the 16 limited frequency bands of the noise processed signal into one broad band output.
- the process goes through an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) process but both the input and output are time domain signals.
- IFFT Inverse Fast Fourier Transform
- the recombining unit of the exemplary embodiment processes 16 input points 602(510, 310) each representing 1 time domain sample per frequency band resulting in 8 output points 604 of the broadband signal.
- IFFT Inverse Fast Fourier Transform
- the new 16 input points 602 are multiplied by a multiplier 606 with a 16 point demodulation filter coefficient which is stored in a demodulation coefficient cyclic buffer 608 containing, for example, 8 groups of 16 coefficients wherein a new group is selected each cycle.
- the result is processed through a 16 point JFFT 610, or any equivalent transform, and the result of this IFFT is extracted to 128 complex points by duplicating the 16 point data 8 times.
- the 128 point result vector which is stored in a buffer 612 is multiplied via the multiplier 614 by a 128 point complex coefficient generated by a predesigned complex filter 616 and stored in real buffer 618.
- the real portion of the result is summed by summer 620 into a 128 point cyclic history buffer 622 in which the oldest 8 points are taken as the result 604 and replaced with zeros in the buffer 622 for the next iteration of the recombination process.
- the present invention processes input data on a continuous basis in groups of as few as 8 data points 202. This provides a throughput advantage over related art systems that process in the frequency domain and must wait until sufficient data points, for example 1024, are accumulated before performing FFT processing. Therefore, the present invention eliminates much of the latency that is inherent in other related art systems.
- a sub-band noise subtraction system that has a simple, yet efficient mechanism, to estimate the noise even in poor signal to noise ratio situations and in continuous fast speech cases.
- An efficient mechanism is provided that can perform the magnitude estimation with little cost, and will overcome the problem of processing latency.
- a stable mechanism is provided to estimate the noise and prevent the creation of musical noise.
- the noise processing technique of the present invention can be utilized in conjunction with the array techniques, close talk microphone technique or as a stand alone system.
- the noise subtraction of the present invention can be implemented in embedded hardware (DSP) as a stand alone system, as part of other embedded algorithms such as adaptive beamforming, or as a firmware application running on a PC using data obtained from a sound port.
- DSP embedded hardware
- the present invention may also be practiced as a software application, preferably written using C or any other programming language, which may be embedded on, for example, a programmable memory chip or stored on a computer-readable medium such as, for example, an optical disk, and retrieved therefrom to drive a computer processor.
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