NOISE CANCELLATION USING AI

A SEMINAR REPORT

Submitted by

BIBEK KUMAR GHOSH [RA1811003020587]

DONIPARTHI SHIVA KUMAR [RA1811003020614]
YADU VAMSI GAVINI [RA1811003020628]
Under the guidance of

M.S.ANTONY VIGIL

(Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering)

In partial fulfillment for the award of the degree of

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
in

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

of
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

RAMAPURAM CAMPUS, CHENNAI -600089
NOVEMBER, 2020
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INTERNAL EXAMINER I INTERNAL EXAMINER
 Abstract

Objective:

To study and explore the use of AI in noise cancellation that has been

witnessing an increase in use for decreasing background noise in the meetings that are

taking place virtually in software and apps like Google Meet, Zoom, etc during the

covid-19 outbreak.

Methods:

Noise mainly refers to unwanted sounds that hinders wanted sounds, for

example traffic, people chatting, or someone listening to music very loudly. Noise is

mainly filtered out using the filter method. In this method, only the background noise

is recorded first and then when the speaker is speaking, this noise is negated from the

overall audio.

Transmitted audio = Overall Audio – Background Noise.

Significance:

Noise cancellation has gained a sudden increase of value because of all the

virtual meetings going on nowadays due to people not leaving their homes and opting

work-from-home and the case is same for all the students who are attending online

classes. So, the more a software is able to eliminate noise, the more pleasant to use it

becomes and thus increases user experience and leads to more people getting

comfortable with virtual meetings.

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER NO. TITLE PAGE

i
ABSTRACT

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Problem Statement 1

1
1.2 Objective
1
1.3 Scope of Project
1

2. LITERATURE REVIEW 2

3. IMPLEMENTATION

3.1 Explanation about Project 3

3
3.2 How to do it?
3
3.3 Result

4. CONCLUSION 4

5. REFERENCES 5
 CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION

1.1 Problem Statement

Noise cancellation has gained a sudden increase of value because of all the virtual meetings
going on nowadays due to people not leaving their homes and opting work-from-home and
the case is same for all the students who are attending online classes. So, the more a software
is able to eliminate noise, the more pleasant to use it becomes and thus increases user
experience and leads to more people getting comfortable with virtual meetings.

1.2 Objective
To study and explore the use of AI in noise cancellation that has been witnessing an increase
in use for decreasing background noise in the meetings that are taking place virtually in
software and apps like Google Meet, Zoom, etc during the covid-19 outbreak.

1.3 Scope of the project

Noise mainly refers to unwanted sounds that hinders wanted sounds, for example traffic,
people chatting, or someone listening to music very loudly. Noise is mainly filtered out using
the filter method. In this method, only the background noise is recorded first and then when
the speaker is speaking, this noise is negated from the overall audio.

Transmitted audio = Overall Audio – Background Noise.

 CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE REVIEW

Currently, noise cancellation is being extensively used in integration with meeting

applications that work online like, Skype, Zoom, Google Meet, etc because of the quarantine
situation that was caused by the Corona virus.

Today, however, researchers, teachers and designers of learning resources are beginning to
ask how this powerful new medium might be used to support children’s learning. This review
is intended as a timely introduction to current thinking about the role of computer games in
supporting children’s learning inside and out of school. It highlights the key areas of research
in the field, in particular the increasing interest in pleasurable learning, learning through
doing and learning through collaboration, that games seem to offer.

These companies are constantly developing their applications to better filter out background
noise like, chatter of people or sound of traffic,etc.

The better the noise cancellation, the better the understanding of the discussion that takes
place in the meetings.
 CHAPTER 3
IMPLEMENTATION

3.1 Explanation About Project

Listen to the audio input and predict the part of it which should be considered as noise.The
parts of the system should be an audio input., an interface to separate the noise and an output
that only outputs the required sounds or one that outputs a certain noise which is opposite in
wavelengths to noise to cancel it out.

3.2 How to do it?

 Listen to the audio
 Detect which part of the audio is noise
 Negate the noise from the remainder of the audio
 Output the remainder

3.3 Result

Input :

Raw.wav

Output :

Info.wav
 CHAPTER 4
CONCLUSION

Thus, we successfully studied and explored the use of AI in noise cancellation that has been
witnessing an increase in use for decreasing background noise in the meetings that are taking
place virtually in software and apps like Google Meet, Zoom, etc during the covid-19
outbreak.
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4. https://medium.com/acing-ai/how-i-build-an-ai-to-play-dino-run-e37f37bdf153
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