Title
Neuromorphic Pitch Based Noise Reduction for Monosyllable Hearing Aid System Application
Abstract
This paper presents a low computational complexity hardware-oriented neuromorphic pitch based noise reduction (NR) algorithm and hardware implementation for monosyllable hearing aid system applications. The proposed NR design consists of a pitch-based voice activity detector (pitch-based VAD) for speech detection and a neuromorphic noise attenuator for speech enhancement. The pitch-based VAD is developed on ANSI S1.11 based filter bank architecture and employs the characteristics of monosyllable and nonlinear energy operator (NEO) to improve the accuracy of VAD. The neuromorphic noise attenuator reduces the background noise by using the characteristics of human hearing system and the clues of speech. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has better SNR and PESQ performance than other non-pitch based NR algorithms in non-stationary background noise environments. Compared with multiband (mband) spectral subtraction and minimum mean square error (mmse) algorithms, the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm can save 90% computational complexity. The hardware implementation consumes 47.74 μW at 0.5 V operation with 65 nm HVT standard cell library.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TCSI.2013.2278348
IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
proposed nr design,speech detection,signal denoising,ansi s1.11 based filter bank architecture,cellular biophysics,medical signal detection,pitch-based voice activity detector,computational complexity hardware-oriented neuromorphic pitch-based noise reduction algorithm,nonlinear energy operator,neurophysiology,mean square error algorithms,hardware implementation,medical signal processing,nonpitch based nr algorithms,non-stationary,channel bank filters,noise reduction,monosyllable hearing aid system applications,pitch,neuromorphic noise attenuator,hearing aids,mandarin,snr,background noise environments,hvt standard cell library,speech enhancement,pesq,pitch-based vad,neuromorphic,human hearing system
Noise reduction,Speech enhancement,Background noise,Hearing aid,Voice activity detection,Minimum mean square error,Neuromorphic engineering,Speech recognition,Electronic engineering,Mathematics,PESQ
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
61
2
1549-8328
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.44
13
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yu-Jui Chen120.44
Cheng-Wen Wei2183.01
Yi FanChiang3101.57
Yi-Le Meng4101.57
Yi-Cheng Huang540.87
Shyh-Jye Jou6420275.67