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In this paper we propose a method for separation of moving sound sources. The method is based on first tracking the sources and then estimation of source spectrograms using multichannel non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) and extracting…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Joonas Nikunen , Aleksandr Diment , Tuomas Virtanen

In live and studio recordings unexpected sound events often lead to interferences in the signal. For non-stationary interferences, sound source separation techniques can be used to reduce the interference level in the recording. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Delia Fano Yela , Sebastian Ewert , Derry FitzGerald , Mark Sandler

We present a neural network that can act as an equivalent to a Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF), and further show how it can be used to perform supervised source separation. Due to the extensibility of this approach we show how we…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Paris Smaragdis , Shrikant Venkataramani

Music source separation is important for applications such as karaoke and remixing. Much of previous research focuses on estimating short-time Fourier transform (STFT) magnitude and discarding phase information. We observe that, for singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Yixuan Zhang , Yuzhou Liu , DeLiang Wang

This paper presents a novel approach to sound source separation that leverages spatial information obtained during the recording setup. Our method trains a spatial mixing filter using solo passages to capture information about the room…

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a linear dimensionality technique for nonnegative data with applications such as image analysis, text mining, audio source separation and hyperspectral unmixing. Given a data matrix $M$ and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Junjun Pan , Nicolas Gillis

We augment the nonnegative matrix factorization method for audio source separation with cues about directionality of sound propagation. This improves separation quality greatly and removes the need for training data, with only a twofold…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-30 Noah D. Stein

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a linear dimensionality reduction technique for nonnegative data, with applications such as hyperspectral unmixing and topic modeling. NMF is a difficult problem in general (NP-hard), and its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Junjun Pan , Valentin Leplat , Michael Ng , Nicolas Gillis

For audio source separation applications, it is common to estimate the magnitude of the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) of each source. In order to further synthesizing time-domain signals, it is necessary to recover the phase of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Paul Magron , Roland Badeau , Bertrand David

We propose a new variant of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), combining separability and sparsity assumptions. Separability requires that the columns of the first NMF factor are equal to columns of the input matrix, while sparsity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Nicolas Nadisic , Arnaud Vandaele , Jeremy E. Cohen , Nicolas Gillis

Large language models have shown a remarkable ability to extract meaning from unstructured data, offering new ways to interpret biomedical signals beyond traditional numerical methods. In this study, we present a matrix factorization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Yasaman Torabi , Shahram Shirani , James P. Reilly

This paper describes heavy-tailed extensions of a state-of-the-art versatile blind source separation method called fast multichannel nonnegative matrix factorization (FastMNMF) from a unified point of view. The common way of deriving such…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Mathieu Fontaine , Kouhei Sekiguchi , Aditya Nugraha , Yoshiaki Bando , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a powerful technique for analyzing regularly-sampled data, i.e., data that can be stored in a matrix. For audio, this has led to numerous applications using time-frequency (TF) representations like…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Krishna Subramani , Paris Smaragdis , Takuya Higuchi , Mehrez Souden

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is now a common tool for audio source separation. When learning NMF on large audio databases, one major drawback is that the complexity in time is O(FKN) when updating the dictionary (where (F;N) is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-06-22 Augustin Lefèvre , Francis Bach , Cédric Févotte

Blind source separation is a common processing tool to analyse the constitution of pixels of hyperspectral images. Such methods usually suppose that pure pixel spectra (endmembers) are the same in all the image for each class of materials.…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-03 Charlotte Revel , Yannick Deville , Véronique Achard , Xavier Briottet

Molecular emission from the galactic and extragalactic interstellar medium (ISM) is often used to determine the physical conditions of the dense gas. However, even from spatially resolved regions, the observed molecules are not necessarily…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-21 Damien de Mijolla , Jonathan Holdship , Serena Viti , Johannes Heyl

Phase recovery of modified spectrograms is a major issue in audio signal processing applications, such as source separation. This paper introduces a novel technique for estimating the phases of components in complex mixtures within onset…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Paul Magron , Roland Badeau , Bertrand David

The audio source separation tasks, such as speech enhancement, speech separation, and music source separation, have achieved impressive performance in recent studies. The powerful modeling capabilities of deep neural networks give us hope…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-15 Lu Zhang , Chenxing Li , Feng Deng , Xiaorui Wang

Distributed microphone arrays composed of multiple subarrays enable blind source separation over a wide spatial area. Directly applying fast multichannel nonnegative matrix factorization (FastMNMF) to all subarrays can exploit observations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Hirotaka Nishikori , Nobutaka Ito , Kouei Yamaoka , Norihiro Takamune , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Audio source separation is often achieved by estimating the magnitude spectrogram of each source, and then applying a phase recovery (or spectrogram inversion) algorithm to retrieve time-domain signals. Typically, spectrogram inversion is…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Paul Magron , Tuomas Virtanen