I n everyday life, noise is usually viewed as being detrimental to detecting signals and transmitting information. We tune out static noise from our radios, pay extra money for cellular phones with clear reception, and move away from a loud pneumatic drill when trying to have a conversation. Engineers spend considerable time and effort designing noise filters, which are common in many consumer ...

background and aim: this study investigated whether objective temporal processing paradigms including voice-onset-time, speech-in-noise, and amplitude modulated-broad-band noise (am-bbn) are sensitive to disrupted temporal processing in elderly listeners with normal hearing (age-related-temporal processing deficit). methods: we evaluated 15 adults aged 64–80 years using behavioural measures of ...

Image denoising as a pre-processing stage is a used to preserve details, edges and global contrast without blurring the corrupted image. Among state-of-the-art algorithms, block shrinkage denoising is an effective and compatible method to suppress additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). Traditional NeighShrink algorithm can remove the Gaussian noise significantly, but loses the edge information i...