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This paper investigates a non-negative matrix factorization (NMF)-based approach to the semi-supervised single-channel speech enhancement problem where only non-stationary additive noise signals are given. The proposed method relies on…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Nikolay Lyubimov , Mikhail Kotov

Matched filters (MFs) are elegant and widely used tools to detect and measure signals that resemble a known template in noisy data. However, they can perform poorly in the presence of contaminating sources of similar or smaller spatial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-01 Jens Erler , Miriam E. Ramos-Ceja , Kaustuv Basu , Frank Bertoldi

We propose a unified model for three inter-related tasks: 1) to \textit{separate} individual sound sources from a mixed music audio, 2) to \textit{transcribe} each sound source to MIDI notes, and 3) to\textit{ synthesize} new pieces based…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Liwei Lin , Qiuqiang Kong , Junyan Jiang , Gus Xia

Multi-channel acoustic signal processing is a well-established and powerful tool to exploit the spatial diversity between a target signal and non-target or noise sources for signal enhancement. However, the textbook solutions for optimal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Reinhold Haeb-Umbach , Tomohiro Nakatani , Marc Delcroix , Christoph Boeddeker , Tsubasa Ochiai

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

Query-based audio source extraction seeks to recover a target source from a mixture conditioned on a query. Existing approaches are largely confined to single-channel audio, leaving the spatial information in multi-channel recordings…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Chenxin Yu , Hao Ma , Xu Li , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Mingjie Shao , Chi Zhang , Xuelong Li

In this paper, we introduce a simple method that can separate arbitrary musical instruments from an audio mixture. Given an unaligned MIDI transcription for a target instrument from an input mixture, we synthesize new mixtures from the midi…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Ethan Manilow , Bryan Pardo

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective method for multiple music source separation using convolutional neural networks. Stacked hourglass network, which was originally designed for human pose estimation in natural images, is…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Sungheon Park , Taehoon Kim , Kyogu Lee , Nojun Kwak

Separation of simultaneously active multiple speakers is a difficult task in environments with strong reverberation and many background noise sources. This paper uses the relative transfer matrix (ReTM), a generalization of the relative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Wageesha N. Manamperi , Thushara D. Abhayapala

Isolating individual instruments in a musical mixture has a myriad of potential applications, and seems imminently achievable given the levels of performance reached by recent deep learning methods. While most musical source separation…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Prem Seetharaman , Gordon Wichern , Shrikant Venkataramani , Jonathan Le Roux

Speech separation refers to extracting each individual speech source in a given mixed signal. Recent advancements in speech separation and ongoing research in this area, have made these approaches as promising techniques for pre-processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , John H. L. Hansen , Dong Yu

Supervised multi-channel audio source separation requires extracting useful spectral, temporal, and spatial features from the mixed signals. The success of many existing systems is therefore largely dependent on the choice of features used…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Emad M. Grais , Dominic Ward , Mark D. Plumbley

The sound field separation methods can separate the target field from the interfering noises, facilitating the study of the acoustic characteristics of the target source, which is placed in a noisy environment. However, most of the existing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Fei Ma , Wen Zhang , Thushara D. Abhayapala

This paper presents an unsupervised method that trains neural source separation by using only multichannel mixture signals. Conventional neural separation methods require a lot of supervised data to achieve excellent performance. Although…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Yoshiaki Bando , Yoko Sasaki , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

In recent years, rapid progress has been made on the problem of single-channel sound separation using supervised training of deep neural networks. In such supervised approaches, a model is trained to predict the component sources from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Scott Wisdom , Efthymios Tzinis , Hakan Erdogan , Ron J. Weiss , Kevin Wilson , John R. Hershey

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

Estimation of the location of sound sources is usually done using microphone arrays. Such settings provide an environment where we know the difference between the received signals among different microphones in the terms of phase or…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Helena Peic Tukuljac , Herve Lissek , Pierre Vandergheynst

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

The integration of additional side information to improve music source separation has been investigated numerous times, e.g., by adding features to the input or by adding learning targets in a multi-task learning scenario. These approaches,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Yun-Ning Hung , Alexander Lerch

Audio source separation aims to separate a mixture into target sources. Previous audio source separation systems usually conduct one-step inference, which does not fully explore the separation ability of models. In this work, we reveal that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yongyi Zang , Jingyi Li , Qiuqiang Kong