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On Inpainting The Adress Algorithm, Derry Fitzgerald, Dan Barry
On Inpainting The Adress Algorithm, Derry Fitzgerald, Dan Barry
Conference papers
The Adress algorithm has been demonstrated to be capable of separating sound sources from instantaneous linear mixtures, provided that the sources have a unique pan position in the stereo field. However, a shortcoming of the Adress algorithm is that all time-frequency bins outside of the chosen azimuth range are set to zero, resulting in audible artifacts in the resynthesised sound. Here we show that an inpainting algorithm based on NMF is capable of estimating these missing values and improves on the results obtained using Adress only.
Vocal Separation Using Nearest Neighbours And Median Filtering, Derry Fitzgerald
Vocal Separation Using Nearest Neighbours And Median Filtering, Derry Fitzgerald
Conference papers
Recently, single channel vocal separation algorithms have been proposed which exploit the fact that most popular music can be regarded as a repeating musical background over which a locally non-repeating vocal signal is superimposed. In this paper we describe a novel vocal separator inspired by these approaches which finds the k nearest neighbours to each frame of a spectrogram of the mixture signal. The median value of these frames is then used as the estimate of the background music at the current frame. This is then used to generate a mask on the original complex-valued spectrogram before inversion to the …
User Assisted Separation Using Tensor Factorisations, Derry Fitzgerald
User Assisted Separation Using Tensor Factorisations, Derry Fitzgerald
Conference papers
Recent research has demonstrated that user assisted techniques, where the user provides a ”guide” version of the source to be separated, are capable of giving good sound source separation. Here the user sings or plays along with the target source, and the user input is used to guide the separation towards the source of interest. This is typically done in a factorisation framework, such as non-negative matrix factorisation. Here we extend such approaches to a tensor factorisation framework to deal with multichannel signals. Further, we demonstrate how this framework can be used to improve the output from other user assisted …
On The Use Of Masking Filters In Sound Source Separation, Derry Fitzgerald, Rajesh Jaiswal
On The Use Of Masking Filters In Sound Source Separation, Derry Fitzgerald, Rajesh Jaiswal
Conference papers
Many sound source separation algorithms, such as NMF and related approaches, disregard phase information and operate only on magnitude or power spectrograms. In this context, generalised Wiener filters have been widely used to generate masks which are applied to the original complex-valued spectrogram before inversion to the time domain, as these masks have been shown to give good results. However, these masks may not be optimal from a perceptual point of view. To this end, we propose new families of masks and compare their performance to generalised Wiener filter masks using three different factorisation-based separation algorithms. Further, to-date no analysis …