Mixture IMM for speech enhancement under nonstationary noise

A mixture interacting multiple model (MIMM) algorithm is proposed to enhance speech contaminated by additive nonstationary noise. In this approach, a mixture hidden filter model (HFM) is used for clean speech modeling and a single hidden filter is used for noise process modeling. The MIMM algorithm gives better enhancement results than the IMM algorithm. The results show that the proposed method offers performance gain compared to the previous results in with slightly increased complexity.