hal-00435897, version 3
Beyond the Narrowband Approximation: Wideband Convex Methods for Under-Determined Reverberant Audio Source Separation
Matthieu Kowalski
1Emmanuel Vincent
a, 2Rémi 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.
- a – INRIA
- 1: Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes (L2S)
- UMR8506 CNRS – SUPELEC – Univ Paris-Sud
- 2: METISS (INRIA - IRISA)
- CNRS : UMR6074 – INRIA – INSA Rennes – Université de Rennes 1
- 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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- From: Matthieu Kowalski
- Submitted on: Saturday, 20 November 2010 16:40:43
- Updated on: Saturday, 20 November 2010 17:41:56






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