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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

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a popular data embedding technique. Given a nonnegative data matrix $X$, it aims at finding two lower dimensional matrices, $W$ and $H$, such that $X\approx WH$, where the factors $W$ and $H$ are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Olivier Vu Thanh , Nicolas Gillis

Auscultation provides a rich diversity of information to diagnose cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. However, sound auscultation is challenging due to noise. In this study, a modified version of the affine non-negative matrix…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Yasaman Torabi , Shahram Shirani , James P. Reilly

In nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), minimum-volume-constrained NMF is a widely used framework for identifying the solution of NMF by making basis vectors as similar as possible. This typically induces sparsity in the coefficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Qianqian Qi , Zhongming Chen , Peter G. M. van der Heijden

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a powerful tool for decomposing mixtures of audio signals in the Time-Frequency (TF) domain. In applications such as source separation, the phase recovery for each extracted component is a major…

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

Many datasets are obtained as a resolution trade-off between two adversarial dimensions; for example between the frequency and the temporal resolutions for the spectrogram of an audio signal, and between the number of wavelengths and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-20 Valentin Leplat , Nicolas Gillis , Cédric Févotte

In this work, we consider nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) with a regularization that promotes small volume of the convex hull spanned by the basis matrix. We present highly efficient algorithms for three different volume…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2020-01-14 M. S. Ang , Nicolas Gillis

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

Minimum-volume nonnegative matrix factorization (min-vol NMF) has been used successfully in many applications, such as hyperspectral imaging, chemical kinetics, spectroscopy, topic modeling, and audio source separation. However, its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-07 Giovanni Barbarino , Nicolas Gillis , Subhayan Saha

NMR spectral datasets, especially in systems with limited samples, can be difficult to interpret if they contain multiple chemical components (phases, polymorphs, molecules, crystals, glasses, etc...) and the possibility of overlapping…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Ryan J. McCarty , Nimish Ronghe , Mandy Woo , Todd M. Alam

Blind source separation (BSS) refers to the process of recovering multiple source signals from observations recorded by an array of sensors. Common approaches to BSS, including independent vector analysis (IVA), and independent low-rank…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jianyu Wang , Shanzheng Guan , Nicolas Dobigeon , Jingdong Chen

In Gaussian model-based multichannel audio source separation, the likelihood of observed mixtures of source signals is parametrized by source spectral variances and by associated spatial covariance matrices. These parameters are estimated…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Mahmoud Fakhry , Piergiorgio Svaizer , Maurizio Omologo

In this paper, we develop structure assisted nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) methods for blind source separation of degenerate data. The motivation originates from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, where a multiple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Yuanchang Sun , Kai Huang , Jack Xin

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

The aim of this study is to implement a method to remove ambient noise in biomedical sounds captured in auscultation. We propose an incremental approach based on multichannel non-negative matrix partial co-factorization (NMPCF) for ambient…

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a powerful tool for decomposing mixtures of audio signals in the Time-Frequency (TF) domain. In the source separation framework, the phase recovery for each extracted component is necessary for…

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

This work addresses the problem of multichannel source separation combining two powerful approaches, multichannel spectral factorization with recent monophonic deep-learning (DL) based spectrum inference. Individual source spectra at…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-04 Antonio J. Muñoz-Montoro , Julio J. Carabias-Orti , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos

Non-negative blind source separation (non-negative BSS), which is also referred to as non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), is a very active field in domains as different as astrophysics, audio processing or biomedical signal processing.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-27 Jérémy Rapin , Jérôme Bobin , Anthony Larue , Jean-Luc Starck

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a linear dimensionality reduction technique for analyzing nonnegative data. A key aspect of NMF is the choice of the objective function that depends on the noise model (or statistics of the noise)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Nicolas Gillis , Le Thi Khanh Hien , Valentin Leplat , Vincent Y. F. Tan

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