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_id: '11913'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: In this paper we propose to employ directional statistics in a complex vector
space to approach the problem of blind speech separation in the presence of spatially
correlated noise. We interpret the values of the short time Fourier transform
of the microphone signals to be draws from a mixture of complex Watson distributions,
a probabilistic model which naturally accounts for spatial aliasing. The parameters
of the density are related to the a priori source probabilities, the power of
the sources and the transfer function ratios from sources to sensors. Estimation
formulas are derived for these parameters by employing the Expectation Maximization
(EM) algorithm. The E-step corresponds to the estimation of the source presence
probabilities for each time-frequency bin, while the M-step leads to a maximum
signal-to-noise ratio (MaxSNR) beamformer in the presence of uncertainty about
the source activity. Experimental results are reported for an implementation in
a generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) like spatial beamforming configuration
for 3 speech sources with significant coherent noise in reverberant environments,
demonstrating the usefulness of the novel modeling framework.
author:
- first_name: Dang Hai
full_name: Tran Vu, Dang Hai
last_name: Tran Vu
- first_name: Reinhold
full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
id: '242'
last_name: Haeb-Umbach
citation:
ama: 'Tran Vu DH, Haeb-Umbach R. Blind speech separation employing directional statistics
in an Expectation Maximization framework. In: IEEE International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010). ; 2010:241-244.
doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495994'
apa: Tran Vu, D. H., & Haeb-Umbach, R. (2010). Blind speech separation employing
directional statistics in an Expectation Maximization framework. In IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010) (pp. 241–244).
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495994
bibtex: '@inproceedings{Tran Vu_Haeb-Umbach_2010, title={Blind speech separation
employing directional statistics in an Expectation Maximization framework}, DOI={10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495994},
booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP 2010)}, author={Tran Vu, Dang Hai and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}, year={2010},
pages={241–244} }'
chicago: Tran Vu, Dang Hai, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “Blind Speech Separation Employing
Directional Statistics in an Expectation Maximization Framework.” In IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010), 241–44,
2010. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495994.
ieee: D. H. Tran Vu and R. Haeb-Umbach, “Blind speech separation employing directional
statistics in an Expectation Maximization framework,” in IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010), 2010,
pp. 241–244.
mla: Tran Vu, Dang Hai, and Reinhold Haeb-Umbach. “Blind Speech Separation Employing
Directional Statistics in an Expectation Maximization Framework.” IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010), 2010,
pp. 241–44, doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495994.
short: 'D.H. Tran Vu, R. Haeb-Umbach, in: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010), 2010, pp. 241–244.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:30:40Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:12Z
department:
- _id: '54'
doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495994
keyword:
- array signal processing
- blind source separation
- blind speech separation
- complex vector space
- complex Watson distribution
- directional statistics
- expectation-maximisation algorithm
- expectation maximization algorithm
- Fourier transform
- Fourier transforms
- generalized sidelobe canceller
- interference suppression
- maximum signal-to-noise ratio beamformer
- microphone signal
- probabilistic model
- spatial aliasing
- spatial beamforming configuration
- speech enhancement
- statistical distributions
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/2010/DaHa10-2.pdf
oa: '1'
page: 241-244
publication: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP 2010)
status: public
title: Blind speech separation employing directional statistics in an Expectation
Maximization framework
type: conference
user_id: '44006'
year: '2010'
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