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Low-Complexity Neural Wind Noise Reduction for Audio Recordings

Audio and Speech Processing 2025-07-03 v1 Sound Signal Processing

Abstract

Wind noise significantly degrades the quality of outdoor audio recordings, yet remains difficult to suppress in real-time on resource-constrained devices. In this work, we propose a low-complexity single-channel deep neural network that leverages the spectral characteristics of wind noise. Experimental results show that our method achieves performance comparable to the state-of-the-art low-complexity ULCNet model. The proposed model, with only 249K parameters and roughly 73 MHz of computational power, is suitable for embedded and mobile audio applications.

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@article{arxiv.2507.01821,
  title  = {Low-Complexity Neural Wind Noise Reduction for Audio Recordings},
  author = {Hesam Eftekhari and Srikanth Raj Chetupalli and Shrishti Saha Shetu and Emanuël A. P. Habets and Oliver Thiergart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.01821},
  year   = {2025}
}
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