Separation of Unknown Number of Sources

We address the problem of blind source separation in acoustic applications where there is no prior knowledge about the number of mixing sources. The presented method employs a mixture of complex Watson distributions in its generative model with a sparse Dirichlet distribution over the mixture weights. The problem is formulated in a fully Bayesian inference with assuming prior distributions over all model parameters. The presented model can regulate its own complexity by pruning unnecessary components by which we can possibly relax the assumption of prior knowledge on the number of sources.