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We propose a novel algorithm for adaptive blind audio source extraction. The proposed method is based on independent vector analysis and utilizes the auxiliary function optimization to achieve high convergence speed. The algorithm is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Jakub Janský , Jiří Málek , Jaroslav Čmejla , Tomáš Kounovský , Zbyněk Koldovský , Jindřich Žďánský

The symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF), a special but important class of the general NMF, has found numerous applications in data analysis such as various clustering tasks. Unfortunately, designing fast algorithms for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Xiao Li , Zhihui Zhu , Qiuwei Li , Kai Liu

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a fundamental non-convex optimization problem with numerous applications in Machine Learning (music analysis, document clustering, speech-source separation etc). Despite having received extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Ioannis Panageas , Stratis Skoulakis , Antonios Varvitsiotis , Xiao Wang

The sources separated by most single channel audio source separation techniques are usually distorted and each separated source contains residual signals from the other sources. To tackle this problem, we propose to enhance the separated…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Emad M. Grais , Gerard Roma , Andrew J. R. Simpson , Mark D. Plumbley

Unsupervised blind source separation methods do not require a training phase and thus cannot suffer from a train-test mismatch, which is a common concern in neural network based source separation. The unsupervised techniques can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Christoph Boeddeker , Frederik Rautenberg , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Spotforming is a target-speaker extraction technique that uses multiple microphone arrays. This method applies beamforming (BF) to each microphone array, and the common components among the BF outputs are estimated as the target source.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Shoma Ayano , Li Li , Shogo Seki , Daichi Kitamura

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a standard linear dimensionality reduction technique for nonnegative data sets. In order to measure the discrepancy between the input data and the low-rank approximation, the Kullback-Leibler (KL)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Le Thi Khanh Hien , Nicolas Gillis

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a popular method in machine learning and signal processing to decompose a given nonnegative matrix into two nonnegative matrices. In this paper, we propose new algorithms, called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Shota Takahashi , Mirai Tanaka , Shiro Ikeda

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a prob- lem with many applications, ranging from facial recognition to document clustering. However, due to the variety of algorithms that solve NMF, the randomness involved in these algorithms,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Connor Sell , Jeremy Kepner

We propose an algorithm to separate simultaneously speaking persons from each other, the "cocktail party problem", using a single microphone. Our approach involves a deep recurrent neural networks regression to a vector space that is…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Cory Stephenson , Patrick Callier , Abhinav Ganesh , Karl Ni

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) seeks a low-rank approximation $X \approx UV^T$ with nonnegative factors and is commonly solved using interior methods that enforce feasibility throughout optimization. We show that such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Qiujing Lu , Tonmoy Monsoor , Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh , Kartik Sharma , Vwani Roychowdhury

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) approximates a given matrix as a product of two non-negative matrices. Multiplicative algorithms deliver reliable results, but they show slow convergence for high-dimensional data and may be stuck…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Felipe Yanez , Francis Bach

Recently, neural directional filtering (NDF) has been introduced as a flexible approach for reconstructing a virtual directional microphone (VDM) with a desired directivity pattern for spatial sound capture. Building on this idea, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Weilong Huang , Le Nhat Tam Huynh , Oliver Thiergart , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Herein, the problem of simultaneous localization of multiple sources given a number of energy samples at different locations is examined. The strategies do not require knowledge of the signal propagation models, nor do they exploit the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Junting Chen , Urbashi Mitra

Objective: Joint analysis of multi-subject brain imaging datasets has wide applications in biomedical engineering. In these datasets, some sources belong to all subjects (joint), a subset of subjects (partially-joint), or a single subject…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-01 Mansooreh Pakravan , Mohammad Bagher Shamsollahi

Non-Negative Matrix Factorization, NMF, attempts to find a number of archetypal response profiles, or parts, such that any sample profile in the dataset can be approximated by a close profile among these archetypes or a linear combination…

Applications · Statistics 2013-12-19 Paul Fogel

This paper tackles two major problem settings for interpretability of audio processing networks, post-hoc and by-design interpretation. For post-hoc interpretation, we aim to interpret decisions of a network in terms of high-level audio…

Target source extraction is significant for improving human speech intelligibility and the speech recognition performance of computers. This study describes a method for target source extraction, called the similarity-and-independence-aware…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Atsuo Hiroe

Audio source separation is the process of separating a mixture (e.g. a pop band recording) into isolated sounds from individual sources (e.g. just the lead vocals). Deep learning models are the state-of-the-art in source separation, given…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Alisa Liu , Prem Seetharaman , Bryan Pardo

We give under weak assumptions a complete combinatorial characterization of identifiability for linear mixtures of finite alphabet sources, with unknown mixing weights and unknown source signals, but known alphabet. This is based on a…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-09-01 Merle Behr , Axel Munk