On 3 Feb, 12:53, "DWT" <zwfilte...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to implement a simple denoising module based on wavelet
> filter-banks (DWT) with VAD. Noise is white, but I'm going to use other
> noises as well (car, babble, pink,..)

You need to first of all contemplate very carefullt what you mean
by 'noise'. In the context of DSP the term is usually understood
as a signal that has certain statistical properties, like with
AWGN and pink noise.

However, in day-to-day language 'noise' also means 'unwanted' or
'uninteresting' sound, which is interpreted subjectively according
to the context: If your main interest is to talk with John, Jack's
speaking on the phone in the corner of the room is 'noise', even
if Jack calls somebody to make a deal on your behalf. If you and
Jack were alone in the room, the same phone call of Jack's would
be very interesting to you.

So you need to discriminate between the 'signal of interest',
which usually have one set of statistical properties, 'noise'
in the DSP sense, which have other statistical properties, and
'interfering sources' which have the same kind of statistical
properties as the signal of interest, but which are of no
interest to you.

It's usually not too difficult to get at least an impression
of the amount of AWGN noise is present. You just have to look
around your formulas and find some error terms here and there.
These are usually related to noise. They are related to
both numerical inaccuracy and model mis-match as well,
so be careful not to over-interpret such factors, but you
can get the overall impression.

The difficult part is how to handle interfering sources, like
the 'cars' and 'babble' you mention above. (I assume you by
'babble' mean people talking in the background.) These sources
are very different, so it might be possible to separate
sound from a car engine from a speach signal, but you will
have problems separating background babble from a speech
signal, as the only difference between them is which speaker
you are interested in listening to.

Similarly, speech ought to be separable from steady-state
engine noise, but the sounds from two different engines or
motors might not be separable.

Rune

On Feb 4, 8:33&#4294967295;am, "DWT" <zwfilte...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Sum of the squares divded by the number of points! You can also do
> >this recursively - there are a number of methods.
>
> >Hardy
>
> Hardy,
>
> Thanks for the prompt reply. Is it possible to estimate noise variance in
> the frames with 'speech' data or only in the 'non-speech\silence' frames?
>
> Serge

What you need is a model, not ad hoc procedures.

illywhacker;

On Feb 4, 8:33 pm, "DWT" <zwfilte...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Sum of the squares divded by the number of points! You can also do
> >this recursively - there are a number of methods.
>
> >Hardy
>
> Hardy,
>
> Thanks for the prompt reply. Is it possible to estimate noise variance in
> the frames with 'speech' data or only in the 'non-speech\silence' frames?
>
> Serge

Normally noise would be present on its own when speech is absent.
Therefore you would need a voice activity detector.


Hardy

>Sum of the squares divded by the number of points! You can also do
>this recursively - there are a number of methods.
>
>
>Hardy

Hardy,

Thanks for the prompt reply. Is it possible to estimate noise variance in
the frames with 'speech' data or only in the 'non-speech\silence' frames? 

Serge

On Feb 4, 12:53&#4294967295;am, "DWT" <zwfilte...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to implement a simple denoising module based on wavelet
> filter-banks (DWT) with VAD. Noise is white, but I'm going to use other
> noises as well (car, babble, pink,..)
>
> 1) How can one estimate the noise variance on each subband?
>
> 2) Would it be better to build VAD on the base of decomposition or as
> stand-alone module (energy feature)? The main problem that I'm not sure how
> to use standard frame-by-frame (frame=30ms, overlap=15ms) energy
> calculation for the DWT decomposition as long as each level contains 2
> times less samples &#4294967295;than the previous.
>
> Thanks for taking the time reading my questions :)

Sum of the squares divded by the number of points! You can also do
this recursively - there are a number of methods.


Hardy

I'm trying to implement a simple denoising module based on wavelet
filter-banks (DWT) with VAD. Noise is white, but I'm going to use other
noises as well (car, babble, pink,..)

1) How can one estimate the noise variance on each subband?

2) Would it be better to build VAD on the base of decomposition or as
stand-alone module (energy feature)? The main problem that I'm not sure how
to use standard frame-by-frame (frame=30ms, overlap=15ms) energy
calculation for the DWT decomposition as long as each level contains 2
times less samples  than the previous.

Thanks for taking the time reading my questions :)