AcousticEng
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I am doing experiments on a filtering technique for noise reduction. My samples in the data set are audio files (.wav), I therefore have: original recording audio files and I mix them with noise, so I get mixed (noisy signals), I pass these noisy signals through the filtering algorithm, the outputs are filtered or noise reduced audio signals. So in total I have the following:
Original audio files (without noise)
Noise (that need to be added of the original signals)
Mixed (Noisy files)
Filtered (noise reduced)
I need to get how much dB the filter can reduce, I think of SNR as a measure that could give such indication about the performance of the filtering algorithm and a comparison before filtering and after filtering.
So does anybody know if SNR is a good objective measure to evaluate the performance of the algorithm and measure the enhancement?
Are there any other suitable objective measures that can be used in this case?
What will be the situation if field recording already contain noise and I don't need to add noise? (the noise in my case is wind).
Here is a simple MATLAB code I wrote to compute SNR.
Original audio files (without noise)
Noise (that need to be added of the original signals)
Mixed (Noisy files)
Filtered (noise reduced)
I need to get how much dB the filter can reduce, I think of SNR as a measure that could give such indication about the performance of the filtering algorithm and a comparison before filtering and after filtering.
So does anybody know if SNR is a good objective measure to evaluate the performance of the algorithm and measure the enhancement?
Are there any other suitable objective measures that can be used in this case?
What will be the situation if field recording already contain noise and I don't need to add noise? (the noise in my case is wind).
Here is a simple MATLAB code I wrote to compute SNR.
Code:
[signal]=audioread('Original.wav');
[noise]=audioread('Noise.wav');
[noise_reduced_signal]=audioread('Filtered.wav');
[noisysignal]=audioread('Noisy.wav');
snr_before = mean( signal.^ 2 ) / mean( noise .^ 2 );
snr_before_db = 10 * log10( snr_before ) % in dB
%==========================================================%
% After noise reduction, the residual noise can be calculated as the difference
% of the wanted signal and the actual signal. Calculation of SNR is then straightforward:
%==========================================================%
snr_after = mean( signal .^ 2 ) / mean( noise_reduced_signal .^ 2 );
snr_after_db = 10 * log10( snr_after ) % in dB
Diff = snr_after_db - snr_before_db;
disp(['Diff = ' num2str(Diff) ' dB'])
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