Under-determined reverberant audio source separation using local observed covariance and auditory-motivated time-frequency representation

  • Authors:
  • Ngoc Q. K. Duong;Emmanuel Vincent;Rémi Gribonval

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA, Centre Inria Rennes, Bretagne Atlantique, France;INRIA, Centre Inria Rennes, Bretagne Atlantique, France;INRIA, Centre Inria Rennes, Bretagne Atlantique, France

  • Venue:
  • LVA/ICA'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Latent variable analysis and signal separation
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We consider the local Gaussian modeling framework for under-determined convolutive audio source separation, where the spatial image of each source is modeled as a zero-mean Gaussian variable with full-rank time- and frequency-dependent covariance. We investigate two methods to improve the accuracy of parameter estimation, based on the use of local observed covariance and auditory-motivated time-frequency representation.We derive an iterative expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm with a suitable initialization scheme. Experimental results over stereo synthetic reverberant mixtures of speech show the effectiveness of the proposed methods.