Informed source separation through spectrogram coding and data embedding
Signal Processing
Improved watermark extraction exploiting undeterminated source separation methods
ICISP'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Image and Signal Processing
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In this paper, we address the issue of audio source separation with a single channel, i.e. the estimation of source signals from a single mixture of these signals. This problem is addressed with a specific configuration: source signals are assumed to be available before the mix is processed. We propose an original method that uses a watermarking technique to embed information about the source signals into the mix signal. Extracting this watermark enables an end-user who has no access to the original sources to separate these signals from their mixture. Thereby several instruments or voice signals can be segregated from a single piece of music to enable post-mixing processing such as volume control.