Spatial efficiency of blind source separation based on decorrelation - subjective and objective assessment

Authors:
Jedrzej Kocinski;Pawel Libiszewski;Aleksander Sek
Affiliations:
Institute of Acoustics, Adam Mickiewicz University, 85 Umultowska Str., 61-614 Poznan, Poland;Institute of Acoustics, Adam Mickiewicz University, 85 Umultowska Str., 61-614 Poznan, Poland;Institute of Acoustics, Adam Mickiewicz University, 85 Umultowska Str., 61-614 Poznan, Poland
Venue:
Speech Communication
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Blind source separation (BSS) method is one of the newest multisensorial methods that exploits statistical properties of simultaneously recorded independent signals to separate them out. The objective of this method is similar to that of beamforming, namely a set of spatial filters that separate source signals are calculated. Thus, it seems to be reasonable to investigate the spatial efficiency of BSS that is reported in this study. A dummy head with two microphones was used to record two signals in an anechoic chamber: target speech and babble noise in different spatial configurations. Then the speech reception thresholds (SRTs, i.e. signal-to-noise ratio, SNR yielding 50% speech intelligibility) before and after BSS algorithm (Parra and Spence, 2000) were determined for audiologically normal subjects. A significant speech intelligibility improvement was noticed after the BSS was applied. This happened in most cases when the target and masker sources were spatially separated. Moreover, the comparison of objective (SNR enhancement) and subjective (intelligibility improvement) assessment methods is reported here. It must be emphasized that these measures give different results.