Convolutive underdetermined source separation through weighted interleaved ICA and spatio-temporal source correlation

  • Authors:
  • Francesco Nesta;Maurizio Omologo

  • Affiliations:
  • Center of Information Technology, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Irst, Italy;Center of Information Technology, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Irst, Italy

  • Venue:
  • LVA/ICA'12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel method for underdetermined acoustic source separation of convolutive mixtures. Multiple complex-valued Independent Component Analysis adaptations jointly estimate the mixing matrix and the temporal activities of multiple sources in each frequency. A structure based on a recursive temporal weighting of the gradient enforces each ICA adaptation to estimate mixing parameters related to sources having a disjoint temporal activity. Permutation problem is reduced imposing a multiresolution spatio-temporal correlation of the narrow-band components. Finally, aligned mixing parameters are used to recover the sources through L0 -norm minimization and a post-processing based on a single channel Wiener filtering. Promising results obtained over a public dataset show that the proposed method is an effective solution to the underdetermined source separation problem.