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Masking threshold

Known as: Global masking threshold 
The masking threshold is the sound pressure level of a sound needed to make the sound audible in the presence of another noise called a "masker… (More)
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2007
2007
Perceptual musical noise reduction using critical bands tonality coefficients and masking thresholds
Speech enhancement techniques using spectral subtraction have the drawback of generating an annoying musical noise. We develop a… (More)
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2006
2006
Speech enhancement using a masking threshold constrained Kalman filter and its heuristic implementations
A masking threshold constrained Kalman filter for speech enhancement is derived in the paper. A key step in a traditional Kalman… (More)
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2006
2006
A New Forward Masking Model and its Application to Speech Enhancement
This paper presents a new forward masking model, which is applied to speech enhancement. The model develops a novel expression… (More)
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2004
2004
Atjditory Masking Based Acoustic Front-end for Robust Speech Recognition
This paper presents an acoustic front-end which uses the properties of auditory masking for extracting acoustic features from the… (More)
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2003
2003
The incorporation of masking threshold to subspace speech enhancement
A subspace enhancement algorithm using the masking property is proposed. The proposed algorithm minimizes the signal distortion… (More)
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1999
1999
Improvement of MBSD by scaling noise masking threshold and correlation analysis with MOS difference instead of MOS
The Modified Bark Spectral Distortion (MBSD), used for an objective speech quality measure, was presented previously [1][2]. The… (More)
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1999
1999
Auditory masking threshold estimation for broadband noise sources with application to speech enhancement
This paper addresses issues encountered in the use of an Auditory Masking Threshold (AMT) for speech enhancement and proposes an… (More)
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1996
1996
A locally adaptive perceptual masking threshold model for image coding
This project involved designing, implementing, and testing of a locally adaptive perceptual masking threshold model for image… (More)
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1996
1996
A masking-threshold-adapted weighting filter for excitation search
Most LPC-based audio coders improve reproduction quality by using predictor coefficients to embody perceptual masking in noise… (More)
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1988
Highly Cited
1988
Transform coding of audio signals using perceptual noise criteria
A 4 bit/sample transform coder is designed using a psychoacoustically derived noise masking threshold based on the shortterm… (More)
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