Model-Based Expectation-Maximization Source Separation and Localization

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 382-394

  Mandel, Michael I ^a   Weiss, Ron J ^a   Ellis, Daniel P W ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimation; speech enhancement; time frequency masking; underdetermined source separation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008544097     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2029711     Document Type: Article

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