An improved combination of directional BSS and a source localizer for robust source separation in rapidly time-varying acoustic scenarios

Zheng Y, Lombard A, Kellermann W (2011)


Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2011

Pages Range: 58-63

Article Number: 5942410

Event location: Edinburgh GB

ISBN: 9781457709999

DOI: 10.1109/HSCMA.2011.5942410

Abstract

In rapidly time-varying acoustic scenarios, Blind Source Separation (BSS) often suffers from problems with slow convergence and poor separation performance. In this paper, we propose an improved scheme composed of Directional BSS and a source localizer for robustly separating and quickly tracking sources in a rapidly time-varying scene. Directional BSS is defined as a generic BSS algorithm combined with geometric constraints which are roughly equivalent to a set of delay⊂tract beamformers. This scheme combines benefits from BSS and null beamforming and achieves high performance for separating sources of known locations. For estimating the Time-Difference-Of- Arrival (TDOA) of each source, another BSS system running in parallel to the main Directional BSS is exploited to serve as a source localizer. Experimental results illustrate the efficiency of the proposed concept. © 2011 IEEE.

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APA:

Zheng, Y., Lombard, A., & Kellermann, W. (2011). An improved combination of directional BSS and a source localizer for robust source separation in rapidly time-varying acoustic scenarios. In Proceedings of the 2011 Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, HSCMA (pp. 58-63). Edinburgh, GB.

MLA:

Zheng, Yuanhang, Anthony Lombard, and Walter Kellermann. "An improved combination of directional BSS and a source localizer for robust source separation in rapidly time-varying acoustic scenarios." Proceedings of the 2011 Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, HSCMA, Edinburgh 2011. 58-63.

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