Hybrid noise reduction for audio captured by drones

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Abstract

Recently, advances in technology have reduced the sizes, lowered prices, and increased commercial use of drones. In the market, drones have become an inexpensive and accessible way to accomplish many tasks such as filming, surveillance, agriculture, delivery, and broadcasting. Such applications typically require a video recording for their operations. However, due to the noise generated by propellers and rotors of a drone, the quality of sound in a video recorded by the drone is quite limited. In order to solve the noise problem of drones, this paper proposes a novel hybrid noise reduction technique combining Active Noise Control and Spectral subtraction methods. Experimental results show that the proposed technique produces a speech signal with up to 67.5% similarity to the original signal. It outperforms Active Noise Control and Spectral Subtraction with similarities of 53.1% and 39.6%, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, IMCOM 2018
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450363853
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Jan 2018
Event12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, IMCOM 2018 - Langkawi, Malaysia
Duration: 5 Jan 20187 Jan 2018

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, IMCOM 2018
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityLangkawi
Period5/01/187/01/18

Keywords

  • Active noise cancellation
  • Drones
  • Internet of things
  • Noise reduction
  • Spectral subtraction

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