We consider the source extraction problem for stereo instantaneous musical mixtures with more than two sources. We prove that usual separation methods based only on spatial diversity have performance limitations when the sources overlap in the time-frequency plane. We propose a new separation scheme combining spatial diversity and structured source priors. We present possible priors based on no...

In this work, we will confront the problem of source separation in the field of astrophysics, where the contributions of various Galactic and extra-Galactic components need to be separated from a set of observed noisy mixtures. Most of the previous work on the problem perform blind source separation, assume noiseless models, and in the few cases when noise is taken into account assume Gaussiani...

In blind source separation methods, the sources are typically assumed to be independent. Some methods are also able to separate dependent sources by estimating or assuming a parametric model for their dependencies. Here, we propose a method that separates dependent sources without a parametric model of their dependency structure. This is possible by introducing some general assumptions on the s...

Sparse Blind Source Separation (BSS) problems have recently received some attention. And some of them have been proposed for the unknown number of sources. However, they only consider the overdetermined case (i.e. with more sources than sensors). In the practical BSS, there are not prior assumptions on the number of sources. In this paper, we use cluster and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) t...

Blind source separation (BSS) is a problem found in many applications related to acoustics or communications. This paper addresses the blind source separation problem for the case where the source signals are non-stationary and the sensors are noisy. To this end, we propose several useful elementary cost functions which can be combined to an overall cost function. The elementary cost functions ...

Channel selection is important for automatic speech recognition as the signal quality of one channel might be significantly better than those of the other channels and therefore, microphone array or blind source separation techniques might not lead to improvements over the best single microphone. The mayor challenge, however, is to find this particular channel who is leading to the most accurat...

This paper addresses the tracking capability of blind source separation algorithms for rapidly time-varying sensor or source positions. Based on a known algorithm for blind source separation, which also allows for simultaneous localization of multiple active sources in reverberant environments, the source separation performance will be investigated for abrupt microphone array rotations represen...

We introduce a new blind source separation approach, based on modified Kullback– Leibler divergence between copula densities, for both independent and dependent source component signals. In the classical case of independent source components, the proposed method generalizes the mutual information (between probability densities) procedure. Moreover, it has the great advantage to be naturally ext...

To attain the benefits of simultaneous shooting in marine data acquisition, either the simultaneous sources have to be placed far apart to minimize the interferences from one another or sufficient attenuation of the interferences is necessary. Attenuating the interferences in a domain where they are randomly distributed has a potential of attenuating the signals particularly when they have conf...