Partially adaptive multichannel joint reduction of ego-noise and environmental noise

H Fang, N Wittmer, J Twiefel, S Wermter… - ICASSP 2023-2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
ICASSP 2023-2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics …, 2023ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human-robot interaction relies on a noise-robust audio processing module capable of
estimating target speech from audio recordings impacted by environmental noise, as well as
self-induced noise, so-called ego-noise. While external ambient noise sources vary from
environment to environment, ego-noise is mainly caused by the internal motors and joints of
a robot. Egonoise and environmental noise reduction are often decoupled, ie, ego-noise
reduction is performed without considering environmental noise. Recently, a variational …
Human-robot interaction relies on a noise-robust audio processing module capable of estimating target speech from audio recordings impacted by environmental noise, as well as self-induced noise, so-called ego-noise. While external ambient noise sources vary from environment to environment, ego-noise is mainly caused by the internal motors and joints of a robot. Egonoise and environmental noise reduction are often decoupled, i.e., ego-noise reduction is performed without considering environmental noise. Recently, a variational autoencoder (VAE)-based speech model has been combined with a fully adaptive non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) noise model to recover clean speech under different environmental noise disturbances. However, its enhancement performance is limited in adverse acoustic scenarios involving, e.g. ego-noise. In this paper, we propose a multichannel partially adaptive scheme to jointly model ego-noise and environmental noise utilizing the VAE-NMF framework, where we take advantage of spatially and spectrally structured characteristics of ego-noise by pre-training the ego-noise model, while retaining the ability to adapt to unknown environmental noise. Experimental results show that our proposed approach outperforms the methods based on a completely fixed scheme and a fully adaptive scheme when ego-noise and environmental noise are present simultaneously.
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