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We propose a spatial loss for unsupervised multi-channel source separation. The proposed loss exploits the duality of direction of arrival (DOA) and beamforming: the steering and beamforming vectors should be aligned for the target source,…
Distant speech processing is a challenging task, especially when dealing with the cocktail party effect. Sound source separation is thus often required as a preprocessing step prior to speech recognition to improve the signal to distortion…
We study an efficient dynamic blind source separation algorithm of convolutive sound mixtures based on updating statistical information in the frequency domain, andminimizing the support of time domain demixing filters by a weighted least…
We propose a blind source separation algorithm that jointly exploits measurements by a conventional microphone array and an ad hoc array of low-rate sound power sensors called blinkies. While providing less information than microphones,…
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…
Multichannel blind audio source separation aims to recover the latent sources from their multichannel mixtures without supervised information. One state-of-the-art blind audio source separation method, named independent low-rank matrix…
In this work, we propose efficient algorithms for joint independent subspace analysis (JISA), an extension of independent component analysis that deals with parallel mixtures, where not all the components are independent. We derive an…
We propose a frequency domain method based on robust independent component analysis (RICA) to address the multichannel Blind Source Separation (BSS) problem of convolutive speech mixtures in highly reverberant environments. We impose…
Audio source separation is the task of isolating sound sources that are active simultaneously in a room captured by a set of microphones. Convolutive audio source separation of equal number of sources and microphones has a number of…
In this work, we present a method for learning interpretable music signal representations directly from waveform signals. Our method can be trained using unsupervised objectives and relies on the denoising auto-encoder model that uses a…
Audio denoising, especially in the context of bird sounds, remains a challenging task due to persistent residual noise. Traditional and deep learning methods often struggle with artificial or low-frequency noise. In this work, we propose…
A two-stage multi-channel speech enhancement method is proposed which consists of a novel adaptive beamformer, Hybrid Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR), Isotropic-MVDR (Iso), and a novel multi-channel spectral Principal…
Recent studies have demonstrated that incorporating auxiliary information, such as speaker voiceprint or visual cues, can substantially improve Speech Enhancement (SE) performance. However, single-channel methods often yield suboptimal…
Background: Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a widespread tool for exploration and denoising of electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals. In its most common formulation, ICA assumes that the signal matrix…
We propose an independence-based joint dereverberation and separation method with a neural source model. We introduce a neural network in the framework of time-decorrelation iterative source steering, which is an extension of independent…
We consider a multi-view learning problem known as group independent component analysis (group ICA), where the goal is to recover shared independent sources from many views. The statistical modeling of this problem requires to take noise…
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…
The recently proposed semi-blind source separation (SBSS) method for nonlinear acoustic echo cancellation (NAEC) outperforms adaptive NAEC in attenuating the nonlinear acoustic echo. However, the multiplicative transfer function (MTF)…
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…
Sparse principal component analysis (sPCA) enhances the interpretability of principal components (PCs) by imposing sparsity constraints on loading vectors (LVs). However, when used as a precursor to independent component analysis (ICA) for…