The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea

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Separation of Single Channel Mixture Using Time-domain Basis Functions

  • Jang, Gil-Jin (Department of Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Oh, Yung-Hwan (Department of Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Published : 2002.12.01
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Abstract

We present a new technique for achieving source separation when given only a single charmel recording. The main idea is based on exploiting the inherent time structure of sound sources by learning a priori sets of time-domain basis functions that encode the sources in a statistically efficient manner. We derive a learning algorithm using a maximum likelihood approach given the observed single charmel data and sets of basis functions. For each time point we infer the source parameters and their contribution factors. This inference is possible due to the prior knowledge of the basis functions and the associated coefficient densities. A flexible model for density estimation allows accurate modeling of the observation, and our experimental results exhibit a high level of separation performance for simulated mixtures as well as real environment recordings employing mixtures of two different sources. We show separation results of two music signals as well as the separation of two voice signals.

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