Title: On the difference-to-sum power ratio of speech and wind noise based on the Corcos model,
Abstract: The difference-to-sum power ratio was proposed and used to suppress wind
noise under specific acoustic conditions. In this contribution, a general
formulation of the difference-to-sum power ratio associated with a mixture of
speech and wind noise is proposed and analyzed. In particular, it is assumed
that the complex coherence of convective turbulence can be modelled by the
Corcos model. In contrast to the work in which the power ratio was first
presented, the employed Corcos model holds for every possible air stream
direction and takes into account the lateral coherence decay rate. The obtained
expression is subsequently validated with real data for a dual microphone
set-up. Finally, the difference-to- sum power ratio is exploited as a spatial
feature to indicate the frame-wise presence of wind noise, obtaining improved
detection performance when compared to an existing multi-channel wind noise
detection approach.