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Blind Separation of Acoustic Signals Combining SIMO-Model-Based Independent Component Analysis and Binary Masking

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A new two-stage blind source separation (BSS) method for convolutive mixtures of speech is proposed, in which a single-input multiple-output (SIMO)-model-based independent component analysis (ICA) and a new SIMO-model-based binary masking are combined. SIMO-model-based ICA enables us to separate the mixed signals, not into monaural source signals but into SIMO-model-based signals from independent sources in their original form at the microphones. Thus, the separated signals of SIMO-model-based ICA can maintain the spatial qualities of each sound source. Owing to this attractive property, our novel SIMO-model-based binary masking can be applied to efficiently remove the residual interference components after SIMO-model-based ICA. The experimental results reveal that the separation performance can be considerably improved by the proposed method compared with that achieved by conventional BSS methods. In addition, the real-time implementation of the proposed BSS is illustrated.

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    Yoshimitsu Mori, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Tomoya Takatani, Satoshi Ukai & Kiyohiro Shikano

  2. Kobe Steel, Ltd., Kobe, 651-2271, Japan

    Takashi Hiekata, Youhei Ikeda, Hiroshi Hashimoto & Takashi Morita

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Mori, Y., Saruwatari, H., Takatani, T. et al. Blind Separation of Acoustic Signals Combining SIMO-Model-Based Independent Component Analysis and Binary Masking. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2006, 034970 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1155/ASP/2006/34970

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