Title
A real-time blind source separation scheme and its application to reverberant and noisy acoustic environments
Abstract
In this paper, we present an efficient real-time implementation of a broadband algorithm for blind source separation (BSS) of convolutive mixtures. A recently introduced generic BSS framework based on a matrix formulation allows simultaneous exploitation of nonwhiteness and nonstationarity of the source signals using second-order statistics. We demonstrate here that this general scheme leads to highly efficient real-time algorithms based on block-online adaptation suitable for ordinary PC platforms. Moreover, we investigate the problem of incorporating noncausal delays which are necessary with certain geometric constellations. Furthermore, the robustness against diffuse background noise, eg., in a car environment is examined and a stepsize control is proposed which further enhances the robustness in real-world environments and leads to an improvement in separation performance. The algorithms were investigated in a reverberant office room and in noisy car environments verifying that the proposed method ensures high separation performance in realistic scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/j.sigpro.2005.06.022
Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
noisy bss,separation performance,efficient real-time algorithm,noisy car environment,block-online adaptation,stepsize control,noisy acoustic environment,second-order statistics,car environment,blind source separation,efficient real-time implementation,real-time blind source separation,generic bss framework,real-time,convolutive mixtures,high separation performance,real time
Signal processing,Background noise,Matrix (mathematics),Control theory,Algorithm,Broadband,Speech recognition,Robustness (computer science),Constellation,Order statistic,Blind signal separation,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
86
6
Signal Processing
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
34
2.28
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert Aichner120816.18
Herbert Buchner243540.57
Fei Yan3342.28
Walter Kellermann453545.32