A distributed compressed sensing approach for speech signal denoising

Abstract

Compressed sensing, a new area of signal processing rising in recent years, seeks to minimize the number of samples that is necessary to be taken from a signal for precise reconstruction. The precondition of compressed sensing theory is the sparsity of signals. In this paper, two methods to estimate the sparsity level of the signal are formulated. And then an approach to estimate the sparsity level directly from the noisy signal is presented. Moreover, a scheme based on distributed compressed sensing for speech signal denoising is described in this work which exploits multiple measurements of the noisy speech signal to construct the block-sparse data and then reconstruct the original speech signal using block-sparse model-based Compressive Sampling Matching Pursuit (CoSaMP) algorithm. Several simulation results demonstrate the accuracy of the estimated sparsity level and that this denoising system for noisy speech signals can achieve favorable performance especially when speech signals suffer severe noise.