Abstract
We propose two types of correlation-based blind source separation (BSS) methods, i.e. a time-domain approach and extensions which use time-frequency (TF) signal representations and thus apply to much more general conditions. Our basic TF methods only require each source to be isolated in a tiny TF area, i.e. they set very limited constraints on the source sparsity and overlap, unlike various previously reported TF-BSS methods. Our approaches consist in identifying the columns of the (scaled permuted) mixing matrix in TF areas where these methods detect that a source is isolated. Both the detection and identification stages of these approaches use local correlation parameters of the TF transforms of the observed signals. Two such Linear Instantaneous TIme-Frequency CORRelation-based BSS methods are proposed, using Centered or Non-Centered TF transforms. These methods, which are resp. called LI-TIFCORR-C and LI-TIFCORR-NC, are especially suited to non-stationary sources. We derive their performance from many tests performed with mixtures of speech signals. This demonstrates that their output SIRs have a low sensitivity to the values of their TF parameters and are quite high, i.e. typically 60 to 80 dB, while the SIRs of all tested classical methods range about from 0 to 40 dB. We also extend these approaches to achieve partial BSS for underdetermined mixtures and to operate when some sources are not isolated in any TF area.
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