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The task of blind source separation (BSS) involves separating sources from a mixture without prior knowledge of the sources or the mixing system. Single-channel mixtures and non-linear mixtures are a particularly challenging problem in BSS.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Matthew B. Webster , Joonnyong Lee

Blind source separation (BSS) is a key technique in array processing and data analysis, aiming to recover unknown sources from observed mixtures without knowledge of the mixing matrix. Classical independent component analysis (ICA) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhongxuan Li

We consider two areas of research that have been developing in parallel over the last decade: blind source separation (BSS) and electromagnetic source estimation (ESE). BSS deals with the recovery of source signals when only mixtures of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-01-22 Kevin H. Knuth , Herbert G. Vaughan

Blind source separation (BSS) is addressed, using a novel data-driven approach, based on a well-established probabilistic model. The proposed method is specifically designed for separation of multichannel audio mixtures. The algorithm…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Bracha Laufer-Goldshtein , Ronen Talmon , Sharon Gannot

Blind Source Separation (BSS) is a challenging matrix factorization problem that plays a central role in multichannel imaging science. In a large number of applications, such as astrophysics, current unmixing methods are limited since…

Applications · Statistics 2017-11-22 Ming Jiang , Jérôme Bobin , Jean-Luc Starck

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

Source separation is one of the signal processing's main emerging domain. Many techniques such as maximum likelihood (ML), Infomax, cumulant matching, estimating function, etc. have been used to address this difficult problem.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ali Mohammad-Djafari

Multichannel audio blind source separation (BSS) in the determined situation (the number of microphones is equal to that of the sources), or determined BSS, is performed by multichannel linear filtering in the time-frequency domain to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Kohei Yatabe

Source separation or demixing is the process of extracting multiple components entangled within a signal. Contemporary signal processing presents a host of difficult source separation problems, from interference cancellation to background…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Michael B. McCoy , Volkan Cevher , Quoc Tran Dinh , Afsaneh Asaei , Luca Baldassarre

State of the art audio source separation models rely on supervised data-driven approaches, which can be expensive in terms of labeling resources. On the other hand, approaches for training these models without any direct supervision are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Michele Mancusi , Emilian Postolache , Giorgio Mariani , Marco Fumero , Andrea Santilli , Luca Cosmo , Emanuele Rodolà

Given a time series of multicomponent measurements x(t), the usual objective of nonlinear blind source separation (BSS) is to find a "source" time series s(t), comprised of statistically independent combinations of the measured components.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-13 David N. Levin

Solving the permutation problem is essential for determined blind source separation (BSS). Existing methods, such as independent vector analysis (IVA) and independent low-rank matrix analysis (ILRMA), tackle the permutation problem by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Kazuki Matsumoto , Kohei Yatabe

In this paper, a Blind Source Separation (BSS) algorithm for multichannel audio contents is proposed. Unlike common BSS algorithms targeting stereo audio contents or microphone array signals, our technique is targeted at multichannel audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Taejin Park , Taejin Lee

Online blind source separation is essential for both speech communication and human-machine interaction. Among existing approaches, overdetermined independent vector analysis (OverIVA) delivers strong performance by exploiting the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Kang Chen , Xianrui Wang , Yichen Yang , Andreas Brendel , Gongping Huang , Zbyněk Koldovský , Jingdong Chen , Jacob Benesty , Shoji Makino

This paper presents a computationally efficient approach to blind source separation (BSS) of audio signals, applicable even when there are more sources than microphones (i.e., the underdetermined case). When there are as many sources as…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Nobutaka Ito , Rintaro Ikeshita , Hiroshi Sawada , Tomohiro Nakatani

A novel extension of Independent Component and Independent Vector Analysis for blind extraction/separation of one or several sources from time-varying mixtures is proposed. The mixtures are assumed to be separable source-by-source in series…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Zbyněk Koldovský , Václav Kautský , Petr Tichavský

Separating an audio scene into isolated sources is a fundamental problem in computer audition, analogous to image segmentation in visual scene analysis. Source separation systems based on deep learning are currently the most successful…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Prem Seetharaman , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux , Bryan Pardo

Single-channel audio separation aims to separate individual sources from a single-channel mixture. Most existing methods rely on supervised learning with synthetically generated paired data. However, obtaining high-quality paired data in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Runwu Shi , Chang Li , Jiang Wang , Rui Zhang , Nabeela Khan , Benjamin Yen , Takeshi Ashizawa , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Multichannel blind source separation (MBSS), which focuses on separating signals of interest from mixed observations, has been extensively studied in acoustic and speech processing. Existing MBSS algorithms, such as independent low-rank…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jianyu Wang , Shanzheng Guan , Zhengqiao Zhao , Nicolas Dobigeon , Jingdong Chen

This paper proposes a determined blind source separation method using Bayesian non-parametric modelling of sources. Conventionally source signals are separated from a given set of mixture signals by modelling them using non-negative matrix…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Chaitanya Narisetty , Tatsuya Komatsu , Reishi Kondo