A frequency domain method for blind source separation of convolutive audio mixtures

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 832-844

  Rahbar, Kamran ^b,c   Reilly, James P ^a,b,d  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Zarlink Semiconductor   (Canada)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Audio enhancement; Frequency domain blind source separation; Joint diagonalization; Permutation ambiguity

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ENHANCEMENT; FREQUENCY DOMAIN BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; JOINT DIAGONALIZATION; PERMUTATION AMBIGUITY;

ALGORITHMS; AUDIO SYSTEMS; AUDITION; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 27644599376     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.851925     Document Type: Article

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