Noise Suppression Method With Low-Complexity Noise Estimation Model and Heuristic Noise-Masking Algorithm for Real-Time Processing of Robot Vacuum Cleaners

Noise suppression in a high-level noise environment using a low-complexity method is challenging. This study proposes a low-complexity noise suppression algorithm for robot vacuum cleaner processors. We collected working noise from a robot vacuum cleaner along with speech signals and developed a method to extract the desired speech signal while estimating the noise. Our approach estimates the noise in the existing signal and converts it into the desired signal. In addition, we designed a low-complexity neural network capable of operating on mobile processors. The evaluation results demonstrate that our method achieves a performance comparable to that of highly computational methods. Notably, our method maintains superior performance when the intensity of the desired signal is low, and its performance is less degraded than that of other methods. It exhibits less degradation than existing methods, and in contrast to other neural networks, it avoids generating incorrect signals. Furthermore, we simplified the neural network architecture reducing its size by approximately 25% with minimal performance loss.