Blind source separation with different sensor spacing and filter length for each frequency range

This paper presents a method for blind source separation using several separating subsystems whose sensor spacing and filter length can be configured individually. Each subsystem is responsible for source separation of an allocated frequency range. With this mechanism, we can use appropriate sensor spacing as well as filter length for each frequency range. We obtained better separation performance than with the conventional method by using a wide sensor spacing and a long filter for a low frequency range, and a narrow sensor spacing and a short filter for a high frequency range.