@CONFERENCE\{IMM2008-05701, author = "M. N. Schmidt and J. Larsen", title = "Reduction of non-stationary noise using a non-negative latent variable decomposition", year = "2008", month = "oct", keywords = "non-negative latent variable decomposition, {NMF,} audio signal processing", booktitle = "{IEEE} Internatioanal Workshop on Machine Learning and Signal Processing {XVIII}", volume = "", series = "", editor = "Jose Principe, Deniz Erdogmus, Tulay Adali", publisher = "IEEE", organization = "", address = "", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/5701-full.html", abstract = "We present amethod for suppression of non-stationary noise in single channel recordings of speech. Themethod is based on a non-negative latent variable decomposition model for the speech and noise signals, learned directly from a noisy mixture. In non-speech regions an overcomplete basis is learned for the noise that is then used to jointly estimate the speech and the noise from the mixture. We compare the method to the classical spectral subtraction approach, where the noise spectrum is estimated as the average over non-speech frames. The proposed method significantly outperforms the classic approach, especially when the noise is highly non-stationary and at low signal-to-noise ratios." }