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Audio Source Separation Using Sparse Representations
This is the author's final version of the article, first published as A. Nesbit, M. G. Jafari, E. Vincent and M. D. Plumbley. Audio Source Separation Using Sparse Representations. In W. Wang (Ed), Machine Audition: Principles, Algorithms and Systems. Chapter 10, pp. 246-264. IGI Global, 2011. ISBN 978-1-61520-919-4. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-919-4.ch010file: NesbitJafariVincentP11-audio.pdf:n\NesbitJafariVincentP11-audio.pdf:PDF owner: markp timestamp: 2011.02.04file: NesbitJafariVincentP11-audio.pdf:n\NesbitJafariVincentP11-audio.pdf:PDF owner: markp timestamp: 2011.02.04The authors address the problem of audio source separation, namely, the recovery of audio signals from recordings of mixtures of those signals. The sparse component analysis framework is a powerful method for achieving this. Sparse orthogonal transforms, in which only few transform coefficients differ significantly from zero, are developed; once the signal has been transformed, energy is apportioned from each transform coefficient to each estimated source, and, finally, the signal is reconstructed using the inverse transform. The overriding aim of this chapter is to demonstrate how this framework, as exemplified here by two different decomposition methods which adapt to the signal to represent it sparsely, can be used to solve different problems in different mixing scenarios. To address the instantaneous (neither delays nor echoes) and underdetermined (more sources than mixtures) mixing model, a lapped orthogonal transform is adapted to the signal by selecting a basis from a library of predetermined bases. This method is highly related to the windowing methods used in the MPEG audio coding framework. In considering the anechoic (delays but no echoes) and determined (equal number of sources and mixtures) mixing case, a greedy adaptive transform is used based on orthogonal basis functions that are learned from the observed data, instead of being selected from a predetermined library of bases. This is found to encode the signal characteristics, by introducing a feedback system between the bases and the observed data. Experiments on mixtures of speech and music signals demonstrate that these methods give good signal approximations and separation performance, and indicate promising directions for future research
Rectified Gaussian Scale Mixtures and the Sparse Non-Negative Least Squares Problem
In this paper, we develop a Bayesian evidence maximization framework to solve
the sparse non-negative least squares (S-NNLS) problem. We introduce a family
of probability densities referred to as the Rectified Gaussian Scale Mixture
(R- GSM) to model the sparsity enforcing prior distribution for the solution.
The R-GSM prior encompasses a variety of heavy-tailed densities such as the
rectified Laplacian and rectified Student- t distributions with a proper choice
of the mixing density. We utilize the hierarchical representation induced by
the R-GSM prior and develop an evidence maximization framework based on the
Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. Using the EM based method, we estimate
the hyper-parameters and obtain a point estimate for the solution. We refer to
the proposed method as rectified sparse Bayesian learning (R-SBL). We provide
four R- SBL variants that offer a range of options for computational complexity
and the quality of the E-step computation. These methods include the Markov
chain Monte Carlo EM, linear minimum mean-square-error estimation, approximate
message passing and a diagonal approximation. Using numerical experiments, we
show that the proposed R-SBL method outperforms existing S-NNLS solvers in
terms of both signal and support recovery performance, and is also very robust
against the structure of the design matrix.Comment: Under Review by IEEE Transactions on Signal Processin
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