Title: Introducing SPAIN (SParse Audion INpainter),
Abstract: A novel sparsity-based algorithm for audio inpainting is proposed by
translating the SPADE algorithm by Kitić et. al.---the state-of-the-art for
audio declipping---into the task of audio inpainting. SPAIN (SParse Audio
INpainter) comes in synthesis and analysis variants. Experiments show that both
A-SPAIN and S-SPAIN outperform other sparsity-based inpainting algorithms and
that A-SPAIN performs on a par with the state-of-the-art method based on linear
prediction.