4 research outputs found
Audio declipping performance enhancement via crossfading
Some audio declipping methods produce waveforms that do not fully respect the actual process of clipping and allow a deviation on the reliable samples. This article reports what effect on perception it has if the output of such “inconsistent” methods is pushed towards “consistent” solutions by postprocessing. We first propose a simple sample replacement method, then we identify its main weaknesses and propose an improved variant. The experiments show that the vast majority of inconsistent declipping methods significantly benefit from the proposed approach in terms of objective perceptual metrics. In particular, we show that the SS PEW method based on social sparsity combined with the proposed method performs comparable to top methods from the consistent class, but at a computational cost of one order of magnitude lower
Consistent dictionary learning for signal declipping
Clipping, or saturation, is a common nonlinear distortion in
signal processing. Recently, declipping techniques have been proposed
based on sparse decomposition of the clipped signals on a fixed dictionary,
with additional constraints on the amplitude of the clipped samples.
Here we propose a dictionary learning approach, where the dictionary
is directly learned from the clipped measurements. We propose a soft-consistency
metric that minimizes the distance to a convex feasibility
set, and takes into account our knowledge about the clipping process.
We then propose a gradient descent-based dictionary learning algorithm
that minimizes the proposed metric, and is thus consistent with the clipping
measurement. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm outperforms
other dictionary learning algorithms applied to clipped signals.
We also show that learning the dictionary directly from the clipped signals
outperforms consistent sparse coding with a fixed dictionary