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Spectrogram Denoising by Filtering Max-Trees

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Gonzalo Romero-García *
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Alberto Martín-Izquierdo
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Edwin Carlinet
DOI:10.1007/978-3-032-09544-2_16delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Spectrograms offer a time-frequency representation well-suited for audio analysis, where structured signals manifest as horizontal or vertical patterns and noise appears as irregular textures. In this paper, we propose a spectrogram denoising method based on mathematical morphology, and more precisely on max-trees. We treat the spectrogram as a grayscale image and apply a sequence of filters on its max-tree representation. We propose a method to isolate signal regions by filtering components according to contrast and shape. A binary mask is constructed from the remaining components, which is used to reconstruct the denoised signal by inverting the masked short-time Fourier transform (STFT). The method is highly interpretable and preserves the signal structure while effectively removing noise. We demonstrate its effectiveness on synthetic and real audio signals.
Keywords:
Spectrograms
Max-tree
Mathematical morphology
Audio denoising

Journal

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DISCRETE GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY, DGMM 2025
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Organization

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universidad antonio de nebrija
Scholars:
445
Papers: 430
Citations: 1