Estimation of binary time-frequency masks from ambient noise

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Authors: José Luis Romero, M. Speckbacher 

Abstract: We investigate the retrieval of a binary time-frequency mask from a few observations of filtered white ambient noise. Confirming household wisdom in acoustic modeling, we show that this is possible by inspecting the average spectrogram of ambient noise. Specifically, we show that the lower quantile of the average of $mathcalO(log(|Omega|/varepsilon))$ masked spectrograms is enough to identify a rather general mask $Omega$ with confidence at least $varepsilon$, up to shape details concentrated near the boundary of $Omega$. As an application, the expected measure of the estimation error is dominated by the perimeter of the time-frequency mask. The estimator requires no knowledge of the noise variance, and only a very qualitative profile of the filtering window, but no exact knowledge of it.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nontrigonometric harmonic analysis involving wavelets and other special systems (42C40) Topological linear spaces of continuous, differentiable or analytic functions (46E10) Hilbert spaces with reproducing kernels (= (proper) functional Hilbert spaces, including de Branges-Rovnyak and other structured spaces) (46E22) Toeplitz operators, Hankel operators, Wiener-Hopf operators (47B35) White noise theory (60H40)

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