CICAAR: Convolutive ICA with an auto-regressive inverse model

Abstract

We invoke an auto-regressive IIR inverse model for convolutive ICA and derive expressions for the likelihood and its gradient. We argue that optimization will give a stable inverse. When there are more sensors than sources the mixing model parameters are estimated in a second step by least squares estimation. We demonstrate the method on synthetic data and finally separate speech and music in a real room recording. © Springer-Verlag 2001.