Convolutive underdetermined source separation through weighted interleaved ICA and spatio-temporal source correlation

Abstract

This paper presents a novel method for underdetermined acoustic source separation of convolutive mixtures. Multiple complex-valued Independent Component Analysis adaptations jointly estimate the mixing matrix and the temporal activities of multiple sources in each frequency. A structure based on a recursive temporal weighting of the gradient enforces each ICA adaptation to estimate mixing parameters related to sources having a disjoint temporal activity. Permutation problem is reduced imposing a multiresolution spatio-temporal correlation of the narrow-band components. Finally, aligned mixing parameters are used to recover the sources through L 0-norm minimization and a post-processing based on a single channel Wiener filtering. Promising results obtained over a public dataset show that the proposed method is an effective solution to the underdetermined source separation problem. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.