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Underdetermined Convolutive Blind Source Separation via Frequency Bin-Wise Clustering and Permutation Alignment

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Underdetermined Convolutive Blind Source Separation via Frequency Bin-Wise Clustering and Permutation Alignment
—This paper presents a blind source separation method for convolutive mixtures of speech/audio sources. The method can even be applied to an underdetermined case where there are fewer microphones than sources. The separation operation is performed in the frequency domain and consists of two stages. In the first stage, frequency-domain mixture samples are clustered into each source by an expectation–maximization (EM) algorithm. Since the clustering is performed in a frequency bin-wise manner, the permutation ambiguities of the bin-wise clustered samples should be aligned. This is solved in the second stage by using the probability on how likely each sample belongs to the assigned class. This two-stage structure makes it possible to attain a good separation even under reverberant conditions. Experimental results for separating four speech signals with three microphones under reverberant conditions show the superiority of the new method over existing methods. We also report separatio...
Hiroshi Sawada, Shoko Araki, Shoji Makino
Added 15 May 2011
Updated 15 May 2011
Type Journal
Year 2011
Where TASLP
Authors Hiroshi Sawada, Shoko Araki, Shoji Makino
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