The fundamental limitation of frequency domain blind source separation for convolutive mixtures of speech

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 109-116

  Araki, Shoko ^a   Mukai, Ryo ^a   Makino, Shoji ^a   Nishikawa, Tsuyoki ^b   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^b  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blind source separation; Convolutive mixture; Frame size; Frequency domain; Independent component analysis; Reverberant speech

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; CONVOLUTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REVERBERATION;

FRAME SIZE;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0037367812     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.809193     Document Type: Article

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