Title :
A new tensor factorization approach for convolutive blind source separation in time domain
Author :
Makkiabadi, Bahador ; Ghaderi, Foad ; Sanei, Saeid
Author_Institution :
Centre of Digital Signal Process., Cardiff Univ., Cardiff, UK
Abstract :
In this paper a new tensor factorization based method is addressed to separate the speech signals from their convolutive mixtures. PARAFAC and majorization concepts have been used to estimate the model parameters which best fit the convolutive model. Having semi-diagonal covariance matrices for different source segments and also quasi static mixing channels are the requirements for our method. We evaluated the method using synthetically mixed real signals. The results show high ability of our method for separating the speech signals.
Keywords :
blind source separation; convolution; covariance matrices; matrix decomposition; mixture models; speech processing; tensors; time-domain analysis; PARAFAC; convolutive blind source separation; convolutive mixture model; majorization concept; model parameter estimation; quasi static mixing channel; semi-diagonal covariance matrix; speech signal separation; tensor factorization based method; time-domain analysis; Correlation; Covariance matrices; Mathematical model; Optimization; Source separation; Tensile stress; Time-domain analysis; Blind Source Separation; Convoutive Mixture; Majorization; PARAFAC2; Procrustes; Tensor Factorization;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing Conference, 2010 18th European
Conference_Location :
Aalborg