Title
Informative Acoustic Feature Selection to Maximize Mutual Information for Collecting Target Sources.
Abstract
An informative acoustic-feature-selection method for collecting target sources in noisy environments is proposed. Wiener filtering is a powerful framework for sound-source enhancement. For Wiener-filter estimation, statistical-mapping functions, such as deep neural network based or Gaussian mixture model based mappings, have been used. In this framework, it is essential to find informative acoustic features that provide effective cues for Wiener-filter estimation. In this study, we measured the informativeness of acoustic features using mutual information between acoustic features and supervised Wiener-filter parameters, e.g., prior signal-to-noise ratios, and developed a method for automatically selecting informative acoustic features from a large number of feature candidates. To automatically select optimum features, we derived a differentiable objective function in proportion to mutual information based on the kernel method. Since the higher order correlations between acoustic features and Wiener-filter parameters are calculated using the kernel method, the statistical dependence of these variables is accurately calculated; thus, only meaningful acoustic features are selected. Through several experiments conducted on a mock sports field, we confirmed that the signal-to-distortion ratio score improved when various types of target sources were surrounded by loud cheering noise.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/TASLP.2017.2662232
IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech & Language Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Acoustics,Microphones,Mutual information,Feature extraction,Estimation,Speech,Speech processing
Wiener filter,Feature selection,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Speech recognition,Differentiable function,Mutual information,Artificial intelligence,Kernel method,Artificial neural network,Mixture model
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
4
2329-9290
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
28
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Koizumi Yuma14111.75
Kenta Niwa29517.07
Yusuke Hioka310119.40
kazunori kobayashi4296.03
Hitoshi Ohmuro55611.11