Reference Microphone Selection for the Weighted Prediction Error Algorithm using the Normalized L-p Norm

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Main Authors: Lohmann, Anselm, van Waterschoot, Toon, Bitzer, Joerg, Doclo, Simon
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Published: 2024
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author Lohmann, Anselm
van Waterschoot, Toon
Bitzer, Joerg
Doclo, Simon
author_facet Lohmann, Anselm
van Waterschoot, Toon
Bitzer, Joerg
Doclo, Simon
contents Reverberation may severely degrade the quality of speech signals recorded using microphones in a room. For compact microphone arrays, the choice of the reference microphone for multi-microphone dereverberation typically does not have a large influence on the dereverberation performance. In contrast, when the microphones are spatially distributed, the choice of the reference microphone may significantly contribute to the dereverberation performance. In this paper, we propose to perform reference microphone selection for the weighted prediction error (WPE) dereverberation algorithm based on the normalized $\ell_p$-norm of the dereverberated output signal. Experimental results for different source positions in a reverberant laboratory show that the proposed method yields a better dereverberation performance than reference microphone selection based on the early-to-late reverberation ratio or signal power.
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spellingShingle Reference Microphone Selection for the Weighted Prediction Error Algorithm using the Normalized L-p Norm
Lohmann, Anselm
van Waterschoot, Toon
Bitzer, Joerg
Doclo, Simon
Audio and Speech Processing
Reverberation may severely degrade the quality of speech signals recorded using microphones in a room. For compact microphone arrays, the choice of the reference microphone for multi-microphone dereverberation typically does not have a large influence on the dereverberation performance. In contrast, when the microphones are spatially distributed, the choice of the reference microphone may significantly contribute to the dereverberation performance. In this paper, we propose to perform reference microphone selection for the weighted prediction error (WPE) dereverberation algorithm based on the normalized $\ell_p$-norm of the dereverberated output signal. Experimental results for different source positions in a reverberant laboratory show that the proposed method yields a better dereverberation performance than reference microphone selection based on the early-to-late reverberation ratio or signal power.
title Reference Microphone Selection for the Weighted Prediction Error Algorithm using the Normalized L-p Norm
topic Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03168