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2.1 Wavelet theory For filtering the sound signal for eliminating the noise
using wavelet filters, the signal sequence needs to be
A wavelet is a mathematical function which divides a decomposed. Wavelet packet decomposition, which is a
continuous-time signal into different components. Li et wavelet transform where the sampled signal is passed
al. [10] proposed an audio de-noising algorithm based through more filters than DWT used for it. In wavelet
on adaptive wavelet soft threshold in order to progress packet decomposition, a signal is split into high-pass
the effect of the content-based songs retrieval system. components (approximation) and low-pass component
Adaptive wavelet soft threshold is based on the gain (details) known as wavelet decomposition tree [11]. The
factor of the linear filter system in the wavelet domain wavelet decomposition tree is shown in figure 2. S is the
and the wavelet coefficients Teager energy operator original signal while A and D represent approximations
[10]. Wavelets are used in various fields including and details respectively. The decomposition is achieved
physics, medicine, biology and statistics. The principal by successive high-pass filtering and low-pass filtering
advantage of wavelet transform over Fourier transform of the time domain signal, which is defined as [15],
is that Wavelets are localized in both frequency and
time whereas the Fourier transform is localised in yhigh [ k ] = ∑ x ( n ) ⋅ g ( 2k − n ) (3)
n
frequency only. Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT)
is something similar to that of Wavelet transform. The ylow [ k ] = ∑ x ( n ) ⋅ h ( 2k − n ) (4)
wavelet transform is developed as an alternative way to n
Figure 4. Power Spectral Density of the sound signal Figure 5. Power Spectral Density of the sound signal produced
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