A method for enhancing speech and warning signals based on parallel convolutional neural networks in a noisy environment

Kang, Ha Lim; Na, Sung Dae; Kim, Myoung Nam

doi:10.3233/THC-218015

A method for enhancing speech and warning signals based on parallel convolutional neural networks in a noisy environment

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Kang, Ha Lim^{a; 1} | Na, Sung Dae^{b; 1} | Kim, Myoung Nam^{c; *}

Affiliations: [a] Department of Medical & Biological Engineering, Graduate School, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 700-422, Korea | [b] Department of Biomedical Engineering, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu 700-422, Korea | [c] Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 700-422, Korea

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Myoung Nam Kim, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 700-422, Korea. E-mail: [email protected].

Note: [1] These authors contributed equally to this work.

Keywords: Warning sound classification, parallel convolutional neural networks, sound enhancement, convolutional encoder-decoder network

DOI: 10.3233/THC-218015

Journal: Technology and Health Care, vol. 29, no. S1, pp. 141-152, 2021

Published: 25 March 2021

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Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Digital hearing aids are based on technology that amplifies sound and removes noise according to the frequency of hearing loss in hearing loss patients. However, within the noise removed is a warning sound that alert the listener; the listener may be exposed to danger because the warning sound is not recognized.

OBJECTIVE:

In this paper, a deep learning model was used to improve these limits and propose a method to distinguish the warning sound in speech signals mixed with noise. In addition, the improved speech and warning sound were derived by removing noise present in the classification sound signals.

METHODS:

To classify the sound dataset, an adaptive convolution filter that changes according to two signals is proposed. The proposed convolution filter is applied to the PCNNs model to analyze the characteristics of the time and frequency domains of the dataset and classify the presence or absence of warning sound. In addition, the CEDN model was used to improve the intelligibility of the warning and the speech in the signal based on the warning sound classification from the proposed PCNNs model.

RESULTS:

Experimental results show that the PCNNs model using the proposed multiplicative filters is efficient for analyzing sound signals with complex frequencies. In addition, the CEDN model was used to improve the intelligibility of the warning and the speech in the signal based on the warning sound classification from the proposed PCNNs model.

CONVLUSION:

We confirmed that the PCNN model with the proposed filter showed the highest training rate, lowest error rate, and the most stable results. In addition, the CEDN model confirmed that speech and warning sounds were recognized, but it was confirmed that there was a limitation in clearly recognizing speech as the noise ratio increased.

1.Introduction

Digital hearing aids include various digital signal processing techniques to provide optimal gain and speech intelligibility for the hearing impaired. The technology that amplifies sound and removes noise according to the degree of hearing loss by frequency is reflected in the device design [1]. However, there are limitations to this conventional method, within the noise removed is a warning sound that alert the listener; the listener may be exposed to danger because the warning sound is not recognized. To solve this problem various speech enhancement methods and noise cancellation methods have been studied, including the application of a deep learning system [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9].

The deep learning system used a sound classification method and a speech enhancement method. Piczak [6] and Seo [7] proposed a deep learning model that effectively analyzes and classifies the characteristics of various sound signals based on a large quantity of sound databases. The proposed method has excellent performance when classifying various types of sound signals by training the characteristics of these signals. The method proposed by Piczak was to classify sounds by applying the Urbansound8K database to the convolutional neural network (CNN) model, and it was confirmed that the training accuracy was 73.1%. Similarly, the method proposed by Seo was to classify sounds by applying the Urbansound8K database to the CNN+LSTM model, and it was confirmed that the training accuracy was 96.4%. However, because this method analyzes and classifies the characteristics of a sound signal only with a noise signal without speech and noise mixing, there is a limit to obtaining meaningful data in an environment where speech and noise exist. In addition, Xu [8] and Park [9] proposed a speech enhancement deep learning method that compares the characteristics of a noisy speech signal with a clean speech signal and reduces the error rate of both signals to obtain a high recognition rate for speech. The method proposed by the Xu is to use the DNN model to improve the speech in a noisy environment with a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of -5 dB to 10 dB. In addition, PESQ performance was compared by applying speech data mixed with four types of noise and 104 types of noise to DNN, with the average PESQ for each type improved from 2.43 to 2.60. And the method proposed by Park is used the convolutional encoder-decoder network (CEDN) model to improve speech in noisy environments with an SNR of 0 dB and to compare performance of the FNN model and the RNN model. Where, the objective quality measurement (SDR) result of the CEDN model was 8.62, better performance than the FNN model with 8.36 results and the RNN model with 8.6 results. However, this method has a limitation in that it recognizes and removes sound signal data other than the trained speech as noise and fails to obtain important sound information that must be conveyed to the listener among the removed sounds such as a warning sound.

In this paper, a new method is proposed based on a deep learning model to overcome the limitations of the sound recognition method through deep learning signal processing. The proposed method uses a deep learning model that distinguishes the presence or absence of warning sound in a noisy environment and another deep learning model that removes noise present in the classified sound signals. This method improves the intelligibility of speech and warning sound and alerts listeners to dangerous situations.

The convolution filter of the general CNN model alone has difficulty in characterizing noise environments with complex frequency bands. Therefore, to classify sound dataset, an adaptive convolution filter that changes according to two signals is proposed. The proposed convolution filter is applied to the parallel convolutional neural networks (PCNNs) model to analyze the characteristics of the time and frequency domains of the dataset and classify the presence or absence of warning sound. In addition, the CEDN model was used to improve the intelligibility of the warning and the speech in the signal based on the warning sound classification from the proposed PCNNs model. The CEDN proposed method compares the error between the noisy signal and the original clean signal and removes noise close to the original clean signal. To verify the validity of the method data characteristics were trained by mixing sound signal data with an SNR ranging from ± 10 dB in 5 dB intervals. The result was computed using several evaluation indexes.

2.Method

2.1Summary of the proposed method

Conventional noise reduction and speech enhancement methods are limited in the accurate characterization and classification of sound data that is required for hearing in various noise environments with various frequency bands. To improve these limitations, the frequency components of a noisy environment were analyzed and the results used to classify noise, warning sound, and speech.

The convolution filter used in the existing CNN model has limitations in analyzing the characteristics of complex noise environments. To overcome these limitations, an adaptive convolution filter was changed according to two types of signals appearing in a sound signal. This convolution filter was applied to the PCNNs model to analyze the time and frequency characteristics of the sound signal. In addition, the presence or absence of warning sound was classified according to the analyzed characteristics. Finally, a method was proposed to improve the intelligibility of warning sound and speech in signals classified as the presence or absence of warning sound using the CEDN model.

Figure 1 shows the overall flow of the proposed warning sound signal classification and sound signal enhancement algorithm. As shown in Fig. 1, the proposed method has a preprocessing stage that transforms the input data into spectrograms and a classifier stage that can classify it as noise and warning sound in a model that has trained the characteristics of the preprocessed data. The classified results are then applied to the codec based sound signal enhancement model once again through preprocessing, with the improvement of the intelligibility of warning sound and speech.

Figure 1.

Proposed warning sound signal classification and sound signal enhancement algorithm flowchart.

2.2The proposed warning sound classification method

The CNN model has low information resolution because it analyzes the characteristics of the input data using only one domain with one convolution filter layer, and it is difficult to analyze a large amount of information simultaneously because of this low information resolution. Therefore, the analyses of the spectrogram of the noise mixed sound signal with a complex frequency band using only the conventional method are limited. To improve these limitations, an adaptive convolution filter that changes in two directions according to the signal region was proposed. In addition, a PCNNs model that can analyze and classify the proposed convolution filter at the same time was used.

Figure 2.

A PCNNs model structure using the proposed convolution filter.

Figure 2 shows the structure of the PCNNs model where the proposed convolution filter is applied. As shown in Fig. 2, the proposed convolution filter has a feature extraction section consisting of two convolution filter layers, the max pooling layer, and two fully connected layers. In addition, it is composed of one part having an activation function (softmax function) in the output layer to classify the presence or absence of a warning sound. The dataset used to classify a warning sound was constructed from data of a mixture of noise and speech with and without a warning sound. The time series data of the constructed sound signal dataset was applied to the neural network model to analyze the features. However, it is difficult to recognize sound patterns where frequencies are complicated by noise. To solve this problem, time series data are applied to neural network models by simplifying each frequency band in the frequency domain and preprocessing it with spectrograms representing the magnitude of energy in each band [10].

To analyze the unique characteristics of the sound data, the mel frequency central coefficient (MFCC) method was used [11]. MFCC is a technique for analyzing spectrogram for each frame and extracting characteristics by dividing the entire sound signal data into short frames rather than analyzing the characteristics of the entire sound signal data. In this paper, the entire sound signal data is applied to window function and divided into 10 frames in the block unit. The sound signal of each frame is then converted to a frequency domain using a Fast Fourier transform (FFT) of size 512. In addition, the frequency band was divided into 40 filter banks to obtain energy from each bank. MFCC was acquired by taking log values for each energy and performing a discrete cosine transformation (DCT). Therefore, data preprocessed with size 40 × 10 using MFCC were applied as input data for the sound classification model.

Previously, to train the input data preprocessed with the spectrogram, a feature map of the input data was extracted by applying a convolution filter to the input data as shown in Eq. (1) [12].

(1)

C⁢Fi⁢j=∑p=0h-1∑q=0w-1S⁢(i+p,j+q)⁢F⁢(p,q)

Where C is the feature map, S is the input data, i and j are the height and width positions of the input data, and h and w are the height and width of the convolution filter, p and q represent the moving direction of the convolution filter, and F is the convolution filter. As shown in Eq. (1), the ability to analyze data depends on the size of the filter; the width and height of the convolution filter used in the CNN model are usually identical. In addition, this CNN model can analyze the characteristics of the entire input data locally.

Figure 3 shows the feature map extraction method using a general convolution filter. As shown in Fig. 3, a convolution filter having a size of h×w was applied at specific positions i and j of H×W sized input data. Then, the feature map that analyzes the characteristics of the input data was extracted by moving the applied convolution filter in the p and q directions.

Table 1

Training result of applying the convolution filter size variable to the CNN model

	Accuracy			Loss
Filter size	3 × 3	4 × 4	5 × 5	3 × 3	4 × 4	5 × 5
Result	0.862	0.875	0.886	0.313	0.289	0.269

Figure 3.

Feature map extraction method using general convolution filter.

Table 1 shows the results of training according to the size variations of the convolution filter. As shown in Table 1, the larger the size of the convolution filter, the higher the training accuracy of analyzing and classifying the spectrogram features, and the lower the error of classifying and misinterpreting the features.

The general CNN model has a single domain and takes a long time to analyze the entire data as it locally analyzes the characteristics of the input data with a limited convolution filter size. In addition, it was not efficient to locally analyze the point where the signal is rapidly increasing in a short period of time. Therefore, to improve the limitations of the CNN model, a convolution filter that adjusts the filter size according to the purpose of using the height (h) and width (w) of the convolution filter was proposed. As shown in Eq. (2), a convolution filter that can analyze the characteristics of the entire mel band for a specific frame was proposed. And a convolution filter that can analyze the characteristics of the entire frame for a specific mel band is proposed in Eq. (3).

(2)

C⁢Fi⁢j=∑p=0H-1∑q=0w-1Sf⁢(i+p,j+q)⁢Fh⁢(p,q)

Where C⁢F is the frame region feature map, Sf is the presented input data, H is the height of the presented input data, i and j are the height and width positions of the presented input data, and h and w are the height and width of the convolution filter, p and q represent the moving direction of the convolution filter, and Fh represents the proposed frame layer convolution filter. Equation (2) enables the analyses of the total mel band frequency change in a specific frame region by making the height (h) of the convolution filter equal to the height (H) of the input data. Therefore, the size of the proposed convolution filter (Fh) for the convolution filter layer having a two layer structure was set to 40 × 2 and applied to the input data (Sf) having a size of 40 × 10. The entire mel band characteristic is analyzed based on the frame axis (H), and thus the mel band characteristic is derived more effectively than the conventional filter. To reduce the Training time and alleviate the overfitting problem, a 1 × 2 max pooling filter was used for the feature map (C⁢F) extracted from the convolutional layer to reduce the overall computation and effectively extract the features. The features of the data were extracted by applying the 40 × 2 convolution filter once more to the 40 × 5 input data whose total number of frames was reduced by half due to the max pooling filter. In addition, the characteristics of the extracted data were analyzed once more using a 1 × 2 max pooling filter.

(3)

C⁢Mi⁢j=∑p=0h-1∑q=0W-1Sm⁢(i+p,j+q)⁢Fw⁢(p,q)

Where C⁢M is the mel band region feature map, Sm is the presented input data, W is the width of the presented input data, i and j are the height and width positions of the presented input data, h and w are the height and width of the convolution filter, p and q are the moving directions of the convolution filter, and Fw represents the proposed mel band layer convolution filter. Equation (3) analyses the time series change of the entire frame region in a specific mel band region by making the width (w) of the convolution filter equal to the width (W) of the input data. Therefore, the size of the proposed convolution filter (Fw) in the convolution filter layer having a two layer structure was 2 × 10 and was applied to the input data (Sm) having a size of 40 × 10. The characteristics of the frame are derived more effectively than the conventional filter since the frame information is analyzed based on the mel band axis (W). The maximum value of the corresponding region was extracted while reducing the size of the entire mel band data by half using a 2 × 1 sized max pooling filter on the feature map (C⁢M) extracted from the proposed convolutional layer. Then, the data was analyzed by using a 2 × 10 sized convolution filter and a 2 × 1 sized pooling filter once again on the 20 × 10 sized input data.

Finally, the frame features and the mel band features analyzed in the two convolutional layers were transferred to the fully connected layer to classify the data. Since the fully connected layer is a layer that analyzes and classifies one dimensional data, the two dimensional data extracted from the convolutional layer is converted into one dimensional data and applied to the feature classification neural network. The feature classification neural network consisted of two layers, the input layer consisted of data obtained from the prefixed layer, a concealed layer with 256 perceptrons, and an output layer with two perceptrons to classify the presence of warning sound.

Figure 4.

Feature map extraction method using the proposed multiplication filter.

Figure 5.

The input dataset applied to each model. (a) A sound signal with mixed speech and noise and (b) A sound signal with mixed speech, warning sound, and noise.

Figure 6.

The output dataset to be compared with each input dataset. (a) A speech signal and (b) A sound signal with a mix of speech and warning sound.

Figure 4 shows the feature map extraction method using the proposed convolution filter. As shown in Fig. 4a, a convolution filter with H×w size was applied at specific positions i and j of H×W input data. Then, while moving the applied convolution filter in the p and q directions, a feature map analyzing the mel band characteristics according to the frame is extracted. As shown in Fig. 4b, a convolution filter with h×W size was applied at specific positions i and j of H×W input data. Then, while moving the applied convolution filter in the p and q directions, a feature map for analyzing frame characteristics according to the mel band is extracted.

2.3The proposed speech and warning sound enhancement method

In this paper, two CEDN models were constructed to remove the noise present in the two datasets classified above [9].

Figure 5 shows the characteristics of noise present in the two classified dataset and used as input data of a CEDN model. A dataset was constructed to apply a sound signal with a mixture of speech and noise as input data for a CEDN model as shown in Fig. 5a. In addition, a dataset was constructed to apply a sound signal with a mixture of speech, warning, and noise as input data for a CEDN model as shown in Fig. 5b.

Figure 6 shows the output dataset to be compared with each input dataset and shows the characteristics of the original signal without noise in the two classified datasets. A speech signal dataset was constructed, which is the original signal without noise in the dataset and non-warning sound, as shown in Fig. 6a. In addition, a sound signal dataset was constructed of a mixture of speech and warning sound, which is the original signal without noise in the dataset with warning sound, as shown in Fig. 6b.

To apply the constructed dataset to the CEDN model, data having a time domain was preprocessed with a spectrogram using a short time Fourier transform (STFT) of size 128. In addition, the time axis of the estimated spectrogram was divided into 8 frames to produce a spectrogram with a size of 128 × 8.

Among the dataset preprocessed with a spectrogram, a noisy dataset was applied as input data of a CEDN model to extract features. Then, the extracted data value was compared with the original signal dataset without noise to reduce the error rate; Training was repeatedly performed until it became similar to the original signal.

3.Results

3.1The experiment result of proposed warning sound classification method

The dataset used for the proposed method of classifying the warning sound was constructed using TIMIT [13], which is a speech signal dataset, and UrbanSound8K [14], a noise signal dataset generated in everyday cities. TIMIT Corpus was used because it was designed to provide speech data for the development and evaluation of acoustic speech research in automatic speech recognition systems. In addition, the Urbansound8K dataset was used because it was a data set that collected various noise environments and warning sound environments with sound data generated in 10 cities. The Urbansound8K data set consists of 10 types of sound data created in everyday cities, and 8,732 data about 4 seconds long. In the Urbansound8K data set, car horn, dog barking, gun shot, and siren were classified as warning sound. In addition, air conditioner, children playing, drilling, engine idling, jackhammer and street music were classified as noise. A total of 5,542 noise data coefficients are used except for the warning sound. And the data set is constructed by mixing with the TIMIT data set for each dB.

To generate a speech and warning dataset including a noisy environment, TIMIT and UrabanSound8k were mixed using MATLAB R2018. In addition, when mixing speech and noise, 5,542 data were constructed for each dB by applying an SNR of ± 10 dB at 5 dB intervals.

In the generated data sets, the data sets for training the proposed model, and the test data sets for predicting the trained data sets were constructed. In addition, the K-fold cross-validation method was used to verify the accuracy of the test data sets. The K-fold cross-verification method is a method of producing and cross-verifying K-folds, where K is 5. The ReLu function was used as the activation function applied to the neural network, and stochastic gradient descent (SGD), which is commonly used to train the neural network model, was used as an optimization method of parameters. The batch size used to train the model was 128, and a total of 1,000 epochs were performed.

Table 2 shows the results of training the data used in the proposed PCNNs model by changing the size of the convolution filter on the existing model, and the training result of the proposed PCNNs model method. As Table 2 shows, the larger the size of the convolution filter, the higher the training accuracy. And the proposed method, PCNNs model training accuracy is 99%, which is more accurate than the existing method. Thus, it was possible to confirm that the PCNNs model, which can analyze and train the overall flow in a specific part, had better performance than other models.

Table 2

Existing model, changing the size of the convolution filter on the existing model, and proposed model train result

Accuracy
Method	Training existing model using proposed data			Proposed
CNN [6]	CNN (3 × 3)	CNN (4 × 4)	CNN (5 × 5)	PCNNs
Result	0.855	0.868	0.879	0.993
CNN+LSTM [7]	CNN (3 × 3)+LSTM	CNN (4 × 4)+LSTM	CNN (5 × 5)+LSTM	PCNNs
Result	0.753	0.796	0.840	0.993

Table 3

CNN and PCNNs model test result

Model	CNN			PCNNs
Filter size	3 × 3	4 × 4	5 × 5	Proposed
Test result	0.907	0.914	0.915	0.985

The result of testing the model trained on the size variable of the filter in the CNN model and the result of testing the model trained on the PCNNs model are shown in Table 3. The performance of the PCNNs model applying the proposed convolution filter is approximately 98%, which confirms that the performance is improved by approximately 8% compared with the existing CNN model that analyzes data locally.

3.2The experiment result of proposed speech and warning sound enhancement method

To remove the noise present in the sound signal classified by the presence or absence of the warning sound, data was trained using two models. The ReLu function was used as the activation function applied to the model, the batch size used to train the model was 64, and a total of 10 epochs were performed.

Figure 7.

The comparison result of the dataset without a warning sound and original signal dataset without noise before applying it to the sound enhancement model. (a) The comparison result of the dataset without a warning sound and original signal dataset without noise before applying to the sound enhancement model and (b) The comparison result of the dataset without a warning sound and original signal dataset without noise applied to the sound enhancement model.

Figure 7 shows the result of comparing the dataset without warning sound and the original signal dataset without noise. The result of comparing the dataset without warning sound and the original signal dataset without noise before applying this to the sound enhancement model is shown in Fig. 7a. This demonstrates that as the noise intensity increases, the error with the original signal dataset increases. The result of comparing the dataset without warning sound and the original signal dataset without noise applied to the sound enhancement model is shown in Fig. 7b.

Figure 8.

The comparison result of the dataset with a warning sound and original signal dataset without noise before applying it to the sound enhancement model. (a) The comparison result of the dataset with a warning sound and original signal dataset without noise before applying to the sound enhancement model and (b) The comparison result of the dataset with a warning sound and original signal dataset without noise applied to the sound enhancement model.

Figure 8 shows the result of comparing the dataset with warning sound and the original signal dataset without noise. The result of comparing the dataset with a warning sound and the original signal dataset without noise before applying it to the sound enhancement model is shown in Fig. 8a. This demonstrates that as the noise intensity increases, the error with the original signal dataset increases. The comparison of the dataset with a warning sound and the original signal dataset without noise applied to the sound enhancement model is shown in Fig. 8b.

Figure 9.

The comparison between the results before applying to the sound enhancement model and the results applied to the sound enhancement model. (a) The comparison of results before and after applying a non-warning sound dataset to the sound improvement model and (b) The comparison of the results before and after applying a warning sound dataset to the sound enhancement model.

Figure 9 shows the comparison between the results before applying to the sound enhancement model and the results applied to the sound enhancement model. The comparison of results before and after applying a non-warning sound dataset to the sound improvement model is shown in Fig. 9a. The comparison of the results before and after applying a warning sound dataset to the sound enhancement model is shown in Fig. 9b. Figure 9a shows that the enhancement is lower in 10 dB and 5 dB with relatively low noise intensity, but higher in 0, -5, and -10 dB with relatively high noise intensity. In addition, Fig. 9b shows that the improvement is lower in 10 dB and 5 dB with relatively low noise intensity, but higher in 0, -5, and -10 dB with relatively high noise intensity.

4.Conclusion

In this paper, we proposed a method of classification whether a warning sound is generated from a speech signal mixed with noise in order to overcome for problems occurring in a speech recognition method through a conventional signal processing using a deep learning model. In addition, a method was proposed of recognizing a dangerous situation by transmitting an improved speech and warning sound to a listener using a deep learning method that removes noise existing in a classified sound signal.

To construct an environment similar to the real environment, a dataset was created where a speech and noise signal without warning sound were mixed, and a dataset where a speech signal and noise with warning sound were mixed. There is a limit to the analyses of the characteristics of a noise environment with a complex frequency band, such as the generated dataset, using only the convolution filter of a general CNN model. Therefore, an adaptive convolution filter that varies according to the characteristics of the sound signal was proposed. The proposed convolution filters were applied to the PCNNs model to analyze the time and frequency domain characteristics of the dataset simultaneously. Based on this, the presence or absence of warning sound was classified. Additionally, as a result of the PCNNs model that the proposed filter was applied to, a CEDN model was used to improve the intelligibility of warning sound and speech in the classified signals with or with warning sound. To verify the proposed method data characteristics were trained by mixing sound signal data with an SNR ranging from ± 10 dB in 5 dB intervals. The performance of the PCNNs model applying the proposed convolution filter is approximately 98%, which confirms that the performance is improved by approximately 8% compared with the existing CNN model that analyzes data locally.

Based on the comparison of the training accuracy and the error rate for quantitative evaluation of the model performance, we confirmed that the PCNNs model that the proposed filter was applied to showed the highest training rate, the lowest error rate, and the most stable results. In addition, the proposed filter is used the CEDN model to improve the intelligibility of the warning sound and speech in the classified signal with or without a warning sound. Although it was confirmed that the speech and the warning sound were clearly recognized, it was confirmed that there was a limit in clearly recognizing the speech as the noise ratio increased.

In the future, the method proposed in this paper is expected to be used as a tool for efficient communication by recognizing the warning sound, which is generally removed from hearing aids through the improvement of speech information loss and experiments in a real time environment.

Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIP) (No. NRF-2017M3A9E2065284, NRF-2018R1A2B2001434, NRF-2019R1C1C1009013).

Conflict of interest

None to report.

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