Fast and stable blind source separation with rank-1 updates

R Scheibler, N Ono - ICASSP 2020-2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a new algorithm for the blind source separation of acoustic sources. This
algorithm is an alternative to the popular auxiliary function based independent vector …

Neural full-rank spatial covariance analysis for blind source separation

Y Bando, K Sekiguchi, Y Masuyama… - IEEE Signal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes aneural blind source separation (BSS) method based on amortized
variational inference (AVI) of a non-linear generative model of mixture signals. A classical …

Determined BSS based on time-frequency masking and its application to harmonic vector analysis

K Yatabe, D Kitamura - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes harmonic vector analysis (HVA) based on a general algorithmic
framework of audio blind source separation (BSS) that is also presented in this paper. BSS …

Block coordinate descent algorithms for auxiliary-function-based independent vector extraction

R Ikeshita, T Nakatani, S Araki - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the problem of extracting all super-Gaussian source signals from a
linear mixture in which (i) the number of super-Gaussian sources K is less than that of …

Blind and neural network-guided convolutional beamformer for joint denoising, dereverberation, and source separation

T Nakatani, R Ikeshita, K Kinoshita… - ICASSP 2021-2021 …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an approach for optimizing a Convolutional BeamFormer (CBF) that
can jointly perform denoising (DN), dereverberation (DR), and source separation (SS). First …

Spatial loss for unsupervised multi-channel source separation

K Saijo, R Scheibler - arxiv preprint arxiv:2204.00210, 2022 - arxiv.org
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 …

A unifying view on blind source separation of convolutive mixtures based on independent component analysis

A Brendel, T Haubner… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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) …

Sound field interpolation for rotation-invariant multichannel array signal processing

Y Wakabayashi, K Yamaoka… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a sound field interpolation for array signal processing (ASP) that is
robust to rotation of a circular microphone array (CMA), and we evaluate beamforming as …

Switching independent vector analysis and its extension to blind and spatially guided convolutional beamforming algorithms

T Nakatani, R Ikeshita, K Kinoshita… - … on Audio, Speech …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper develops a framework that can accurately perform denoising, dereverberation,
and source separation using a relatively small number of microphones. It has been …

Surrogate source model learning for determined source separation

R Scheibler, M Togami - ICASSP 2021-2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose to learn surrogate functions of universal speech priors for determined blind
speech separation. Deep speech priors are highly desirable due to their superior modelling …