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Blind source separation (BSS) techniques aims at joint estimation of source signals and a mixing matrix from observations of mixtures. This paper addresses a doubly nonstationary BSS problem, where the mixing matrix is time dependent and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Adrien Meynard

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

We present a Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) derivation of the Independent Vector Analysis (IVA) algorithm, a blind source separation algorithm, by incorporating a prior over the demixing matrices, relying on a free-field model. In this way, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-17 Andreas Brendel , Thomas Haubner , Walter Kellermann

State-of-the-art under-determined audio source separation systems rely on supervised end-end training of carefully tailored neural network architectures operating either in the time or the spectral domain. However, these methods are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-29 Vivek Narayanaswamy , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Rushil Anirudh , Andreas Spanias

This letter proposes a new blind source separation (BSS) framework termed minimum variance independent component analysis (MVICA), which can potentially achieve the maximum output signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) while also allowing more…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Jianju Gu , Longbiao Cheng , Dingding Yao , Junfeng Li , Yonghong Yan

This study introduces a novel unsupervised approach for separating overlapping heart and lung sounds using variational autoencoders (VAEs). In clinical settings, these sounds often interfere with each other, making manual separation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Yasaman Torabi , Shahram Shirani , James P. Reilly

Blind speech separation (BSS) aims to recover multiple speech sources from multi-channel, multi-speaker mixtures under unknown array geometry and room impulse responses. In unsupervised setup where clean target speech is not available for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Shulin He , Zhong-Qiu Wang

While there has been much recent progress using deep learning techniques to separate speech and music audio signals, these systems typically require large collections of isolated sources during the training process. When extending audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Fatemeh Pishdadian , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Blind-audio-source-separation (BASS) techniques, particularly those with low latency, play an important role in a wide range of real-time systems, e.g., hearing aids, in-car hand-free voice communication, real-time human-machine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Kaien Mo , Xianrui Wang , Yichen Yang , Shoji Makino , Jingdong Chen

In many daily-life scenarios, acoustic sources recorded in an enclosure can only be observed with other interfering sources. Hence, convolutive Blind Source Separation (BSS) is a central problem in audio signal processing. Methods based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Andreas Brendel , Thomas Haubner , Walter Kellermann

We propose a training scheme to train neural network-based source separation algorithms from scratch when parallel clean data is unavailable. In particular, we demonstrate that an unsupervised spatial clustering algorithm is sufficient to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Lukas Drude , Daniel Hasenklever , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Consider a time series of signal measurements $x(t)$, having components $x_k \mbox{ for } k = 1,2, \ldots ,N$. This paper shows how to determine if these signals are equal to linear or nonlinear mixtures of the state variables of two or…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-01-15 David N. Levin

We propose a novel unsupervised singing voice detection method which use single-channel Blind Audio Source Separation (BASS) algorithm as a preliminary step. To reach this goal, we investigate three promising BASS approaches which operate…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Dominique Fourer , Geoffroy Peeters

Speech separation is a fundamental task in audio processing, typically addressed with fully supervised systems trained on paired mixtures. While effective, such systems typically rely on synthetic data pipelines, which may not reflect…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Runwu Shi , Kai Li , Chang Li , Jiang Wang , Sihan Tan , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Real-world sound scenes consist of time-varying collections of sound sources, each generating characteristic sound events that are mixed together in audio recordings. The association of these constituent sound events with their mixture and…

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

In this paper, we are interested in audio-visual speech separation given a single-channel audio recording as well as visual information (lips movements) associated with each speaker. We propose an unsupervised technique based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Viet-Nhat Nguyen , Mostafa Sadeghi , Elisa Ricci , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

This paper proposes reverberation as supervision (RAS), a novel unsupervised loss function for single-channel reverberant speech separation. Prior methods for unsupervised separation required the synthesis of mixtures of mixtures or assumed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Rohith Aralikatti , Christoph Boeddeker , Gordon Wichern , Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Jonathan Le Roux

Music source separation is focused on extracting distinct sonic elements from composite tracks. Historically, many methods have been grounded in supervised learning, necessitating labeled data, which is occasionally constrained in its…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Marco Pasini , Stefan Lattner , George Fazekas

Training neural networks for source separation involves presenting a mixture recording at the input of the network and updating network parameters in order to produce an output that resembles the clean source. Consequently, supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Shrikant Venkataramani , Efthymios Tzinis , Paris Smaragdis