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Although deep learning based multi-channel speech enhancement has achieved significant advancements, its practical deployment is often limited by constrained computational resources, particularly in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)…
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…
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…
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…
In this paper, we propose a new online independent vector analysis (IVA) algorithm for real-time blind source separation (BSS). In many BSS algorithms, the iterative projection (IP) has been used for updating the demixing matrix, a…
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…
This manuscript proposes a novel robust procedure for the extraction of a speaker of interest (SOI) from a mixture of audio sources. The estimation of the SOI is performed via independent vector extraction (IVE). Since the blind IVE cannot…
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…
The complete decomposition performed by blind source separation is computationally demanding and superfluous when only the speech of one specific target speaker is desired. In this paper, we propose a computationally efficient blind speech…
Multichannel convolutive blind speech source separation refers to the problem of separating different speech sources from the observed multichannel mixtures without much a priori information about the mixing system. Multichannel nonnegative…
Independent component analysis (ICA) is now a widely used solution for the analysis of multi-subject functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. Independent vector analysis (IVA) generalizes ICA to multiple datasets, i.e., to…
Non-Gaussianity-based Independent Vector Extraction leads to the famous one-unit FastICA/FastIVA algorithm when the likelihood function is optimized using an approximate Newton-Raphson algorithm under the orthogonality constraint. In this…
This paper introduces a new method for multi-channel time domain speech separation in reverberant environments. A fully-convolutional neural network structure has been used to directly separate speech from multiple microphone recordings,…
Recently, Constant Separating Vector (CSV) mixing model has been proposed for the Blind Source Extraction (BSE) of moving sources. In this paper, we experimentally verify the applicability of CSV in the blind extraction of a moving speaker…
In this paper, we present a statistical beamforming algorithm as a pre-processing step for robust automatic speech recognition (ASR). By modeling the target speech as a non-stationary Laplacian distribution, a mask-based statistical…
Recently, audio-visual speech enhancement has been tackled in the unsupervised settings based on variational auto-encoders (VAEs), where during training only clean data is used to train a generative model for speech, which at test time is…
Self-supervised image denoising implies restoring the signal from a noisy image without access to the ground truth. State-of-the-art solutions for this task rely on predicting masked pixels with a fully-convolutional neural network. This…
In this paper, we propose an invertible deep learning framework called INVVC for voice conversion. It is designed against the possible threats that inherently come along with voice conversion systems. Specifically, we develop an invertible…
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…
We propose to learn surrogate functions of universal speech priors for determined blind speech separation. Deep speech priors are highly desirable due to their high modelling power, but are not compatible with state-of-the-art independent…