Informed Source Separation from compressed mixtures using spatial wiener filter and quantization noise estimation

Abstract

International audienceIn a previous work, we proposed an Informed Source Separation sys- tem based on Wiener filtering for active listening of music from un- compressed (16-bit PCM) multichannel mix signals. In the present work, the system is improved to work with (MPEG-2 AAC) com- pressed mix signals: quantization noise is estimated from the AAC bitstream at the decoder and explicitly taken into account in the source separation process. Also a direct MDCT-to-STFT transform is used to optimize the computational efficiency of the process in the STFT domain from AAC-decoded MDCT coefficients