Separating underdetermined convolutive speech mixtures

  • Authors:
  • Michael Syskind Pedersen;DeLiang Wang;Jan Larsen;Ulrik Kjems

  • Affiliations:
  • Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark;Department of Computer Science and Engineering & Center for Cognitive Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH;Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark;Oticon A/S, Smørum, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • ICA'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A limitation in many source separation tasks is that the number of source signals has to be known in advance. Further, in order to achieve good performance, the number of sources cannot exceed the number of sensors. In many real-world applications these limitations are too restrictive. We propose a method for underdetermined blind source separation of convolutive mixtures. The proposed framework is applicable for separation of instantaneous as well as convolutive speech mixtures. It is possible to iteratively extract each speech signal from the mixture by combining blind source separation techniques with binary time-frequency masking. In the proposed method, the number of source signals is not assumed to be known in advance and the number of sources is not limited to the number of microphones. Our approach needs only two microphones and the separated sounds are maintained as stereo signals.