Speech and Audio Processing in Adverse Environments

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-xxvi

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2. Speech Enhancement

   1. Introduction

      • Eberhard Hänsler, Gerhard Schmidt

      Pages 7-10

   2. Low Delay Filter-Banks for Speech and Audio Processing

      • Heinrich W. Löllmann, Peter Vary

      Pages 13-61

   3. A Pre-Filter for Hands-Free Car Phone Noise Reduction: Suppression of Harmonic Engine Noise Components

      • Henning Puder

      Pages 63-87

   4. Model-Based Speech Enhancement

      • Mohamed Krini, Gerhard Schmidt

      Pages 89-134

   5. Bandwidth Extension of Telephony Speech

      • Bernd Iser, Gerhard Schmidt

      Pages 135-184

   6. Dereverberation and Residual Echo Suppression in Noisy Environments

      • Emanuël Anco Peter Habets, Sharon Gannot, Israel Cohen

      Pages 185-227

   7. Low Distortion Noise Cancellers – Revival of a Classical Technique

      • Akihiko Sugiyama

      Pages 229-264

3. Echo Cancellation

   1. Nonlinear Echo Cancellation Based on Spectral Shaping

      • Osamu Hoshuyama, Akihiko Sugiyama

      Pages 267-283

4. Signal and System Quality Evaluation

   1. Telephone-Speech Quality

      • Ulrich Heute

      Pages 287-337

   2. Evaluation of Hands-free Terminals

      • Frank Kettler, Hans-Wilhelm Gierlich

      Pages 339-377

5. Multi-Channel Processing

   1. Correlation-Based TDOA-Estimation for Multiple Sources in Reverberant Environments

      • Jan Scheuing, Bin Yang

      Pages 381-416

   2. Microphone Calibration for Multi-Channel Signal Processing

      • Markus Buck, Tim Haulick, Hans-Jörg Pfleiderer

      Pages 417-467

   3. Convolutive Blind Source Separation for Noisy Mixtures

      • Robert Aichner, Herbert Buchner, Walter Kellermann

      Pages 469-524

   4. Binaural Speech Segregation

      • Nicoleta Roman, D. Liang Wang

      Pages 525-549

   5. Spatio-Temporal Adaptive Inverse Filtering in the Wave Domain

      • Sascha Spors, Herbert Buchner, Rudolf Rabenstein

      Pages 551-583

6. Selected Applications

   1. Virtual Hearing

      • Karl Wiklund, Simon Haykin

      Pages 587-614

   2. Dynamic Sound Control Algorithms in Automobiles

      • Markus Christoph

      Pages 615-678

   3. Towards Robust Distant-Talking Automatic Speech Recognition in Reverberant Environments

      • Armin Sehr, Walter Kellermann

      Pages 679-728

7. Back Matter

   Pages 729-735

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Users of signal processing systems are never satis?ed with the system they currently use. They are constantly asking for higher quality, faster perf- mance, more comfort and lower prices. Researchers and developers should be appreciative for this attitude. It justi?es their constant e?ort for improved systems. Better knowledge about biological and physical interrelations c- ing along with more powerful technologies are their engines on the endless road to perfect systems. This book is an impressive image of this process. After “Acoustic Echo 1 and Noise Control” published in 2004 many new results lead to “Topics in 2 Acoustic Echo and Noise Control” edited in 2006 . Today – in 2008 – even morenew?ndingsandsystemscouldbecollectedinthisbook.Comparingthe contributions in both edited volumes progress in knowledge and technology becomesclearlyvisible:Blindmethodsandmultiinputsystemsreplace“h- ble” low complexity systems. The functionality of new systems is less and less limited by the processing power available under economic constraints. The editors have to thank all the authors for their contributions. They cooperated readily in our e?ort to unify the layout of the chapters, the ter- nology, and the symbols used. It was a pleasure to work with all of them. Furthermore, it is the editors concern to thank Christoph Baumann and the Springer Publishing Company for the encouragement and help in publi- ing this book.

• Dereverberation
• Echo Cancelation
• Noise Concelation
• Sound Quality
• adaptive Filter
• algorithms
• audio signal processing
• blind source separation
• filter
• filtering
• signal processing
• speech processing
• speech recognition
• system identification

• Technische Universität, Darmstadt, Germany

  Eberhard Hänsler

• Harman/Becker Automotive Systems, Ulm, Germany

  Gerhard Schmidt

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