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Penalty function-based joint diagonalization approach for convolutive blind separation of nonstationary sources

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posted on 2010-01-11, 12:38 authored by Wenwu Wang, Saeid Sanei, Jonathon Chambers
A new approach for convolutive blind source separation (BSS) by explicitly exploiting the second-order nonstationarity of signals and operating in the frequency domain is proposed. The algorithm accommodates a penalty function within the cross-power spectrum-based cost function and thereby converts the separation problem into a joint diagonalization problem with unconstrained optimization. This leads to a new member of the family of joint diagonalization criteria and a modification of the search direction of the gradient-based descent algorithm. Using this approach, not only can the degenerate solution induced by a unmixing matrix and the effect of large errors within the elements of covariance matrices at low-frequency bins be automatically removed, but in addition, a unifying view to joint diagonalization with unitary or nonunitary constraint is provided. Numerical experiments are presented to verify the performance of the new method, which show that a suitable penalty function may lead the algorithm to a faster convergence and a better performance for the separation of convolved speech signals, in particular, in terms of shape preservation and amplitude ambiguity reduction, as compared with the conventional second-order based algorithms for convolutive mixtures that exploit signal nonstationarity.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Citation

WANG, W., SANEI, S. and CHAMBERS, J., 2005. Penalty function-based joint diagonalization approach for convolutive blind separation of nonstationary sources. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 53 (5), pp. 1654-1669

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© IEEE

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2005

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1053-587X

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  • en