Research Article

Subband DCT and EMD Based Hybrid Soft Thresholding for Speech Enhancement

Table 2

Comparison of overall SNR, average segmental SNR (AvgSegSNR), and PESQ improvements of different denoising methods for pink and HF channel noise.

Input SNR (dB)Output SNR (dB)
0510152530

PINK
 WP [3]2.577.1911.6615.8122.6925.20
 DCT [11]2.126.7811.3515.8124.5828.98
 S. DCT [4]1.415.9810.7315.5125.2430.13
4.518.2712.4116.8126.0130.44
HF
 WP [3]1.966.7211.6316.4524.2426.47
 DCT [11]3.597.8411.8815.9424.1128.21
 S. DCT [4]0.945.3810.0814.9224.7029.61
4.928.9512.9617.1426.2130.84

In. AvgSegSNR (dB)Output AvgSegSNR (dB)
−4.047−1.1242.2565.95914.05918.188

PINK
 WP [3]−2.9830.0173.1966.37312.35414.904
 DCT [11]−3.149−0.1623.0576.43513.69517.526
 S. DCT [4]−3.598−0.6492.7046.32814.29218.341
1.5940.9273.5387.07415.08818.834

In. AvgSegSNR (dB) Output AvgSegSNR (dB)
−4.162−1.2872.0795.78113.90618.049

HF
 WP [3]−3.574−0.4763.0066.68513.44116.017
 DCT [11]−2.6830.2183.2196.41113.31917.007
 S. DCT [4]−4.171−1.3491.9485.59913.60317.725
1.2341.5264.4167.67115.34219.239

Input SNR (dB)PESQ
0510152530

PINK
 Input1.331.682.062.433.223.61
 WP [3]1.642.042.382.663.153.32
 DCT [11]1.912.272.592.933.513.77
 S. DCT [4]1.852.172.512.843.503.79
1.932.292.622.953.553.83
HF
 Input1.581.842.142.443.153.49
 WP [3]1.671.872.122.453.153.47
 DCT [11]1.601.832.132.463.113.37
 S. DCT [4]1.491.621.842.142.943.32
1.611.962.322.663.343.65