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Consistent Wiener Filtering: Generalized Time-Frequency Masking Respecting Spectrogram Consistency

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Consistent Wiener Filtering: Generalized Time-Frequency Masking Respecting Spectrogram Consistency
Wiener filtering is one of the most widely used methods in audio source separation. It is often applied on time-frequency representations of signals, such as the short-time Fourier transform (STFT), to exploit their short-term stationarity, but so far the design of the Wiener time-frequency mask did not take into account the necessity for the output spectrograms to be consistent, i.e., to correspond to the STFT of a time-domain signal. In this paper, we generalize the concept of Wiener filtering to time-frequency masks which can involve manipulation of the phase as well by formulating the problem as a consistency-constrained Maximum-Likelihood one. We present two methods to solve the problem, one looking for the optimal time-domain signal, the other promoting consistency through a penalty function directly in the time-frequency domain. We show through experimental evaluation that, both in oracle conditions and combined with spectral subtraction, our method outperforms classical Wiener ...
Jonathan Le Roux, Emmanuel Vincent, Yuu Mizuno, Hi
Added 09 Nov 2010
Updated 09 Nov 2010
Type Conference
Year 2010
Where ICA
Authors Jonathan Le Roux, Emmanuel Vincent, Yuu Mizuno, Hirokazu Kameoka, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama
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