Title
A Biologically Motivated Solution to the Cocktail Party Problem
Abstract
We present a new approach to the cocktail party problem that uses a cortronic artificial neural network architecture (Hecht-Nielsen, 1998) as the front end of a speech processing system. Our approach is novel in three important respects. First, our method assumes and exploits detailed knowledge of the signals we wish to attend to in the cocktail party environment. Second, our goal is to provide preprocessing in advance of a pattern recognition system rather than to separate one or more of the mixed sources explicitly. Third, the neural network model we employ is more biologically feasible than are most other approaches to the cocktail party problem. Although the focus here is on the cocktail party problem, the method presented in this study can be applied to other areas of information processing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1162/089976601750265018
Neural Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
pattern recognition,front end,artificial neural network,neural network model,speech processing,information processing
Front and back ends,Information theory,Speech processing,Information processing,Cocktail party effect,Communication theory,Exploit,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Mathematics,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
7
0899-7667
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.95
11
Authors
6