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hal-00435897, version 3

Beyond the Narrowband Approximation: Wideband Convex Methods for Under-Determined Reverberant Audio Source Separation

Matthieu Kowalski () 1, Emmanuel Vincent () a2, Rémi Gribonval () 2

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 18, 7 (2010) 1818 - 1829

Abstract: We consider the problem of extracting the source signals from an under-determined convolutive mixture assuming known mixing filters. State-of-the-art methods operate in the time-frequency domain and rely on narrowband approximation of the convolutive mixing process by complex-valued multiplication in each frequency bin. The source signals are then estimated by minimizing either a mixture fitting cost or a l1 source sparsity cost, under possible constraints on the number of active sources. In this article, we define a wideband l2 mixture fitting cost circumventing the above approximation and investigate the use of a l1,2 mixed-norm cost promoting disjointness of the source timefrequency representations. We design a family of convex functionals combining these costs and derive suitable optimization algorithms. Experiments indicate that the proposed wideband methods result in a signal-to-distortion ratio improvement of 2 to 5 dB compared to the state-of-the-art on reverberant speech mixtures.

  • Domain : Computer Science/Signal and Image Processing
    Computer Science/Sound
    Engineering Sciences/Signal and Image processing
  • Keywords : Source separation – convolutive mixture – narrowband approximation – mixed norms – convex optimization
  • Comment : Revised version including a bugfix in DUET compared to the original version published by the IEEE
  • Available versions :  v1 (2009-11-25) v2 (2010-10-25) v3 (2010-11-20)
 
  • hal-00435897, version 3
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  • Submitted on: Saturday, 20 November 2010 16:40:43
  • Updated on: Saturday, 20 November 2010 17:41:56
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