OpenBliSSART: Design and evaluation of a research toolkit for blind source separation in audio recognition tasks

Felix Weninger, Alexander Lehmann, Björn Schuller

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Abstract

We describe and evaluate our toolkit openBliSSART (open-source Blind Source Separation for Audio Recognition Tasks), which is the C++ framework and toolbox that we have successfully used in a multiplicity of research on blind audio source separation and feature extraction. To our knowledge, it provides the first open-source implementation of a widely applicable algorithmic framework based on non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), including several preprocessing, factorization, and signal reconstruction algorithms for monaural signals. Apart from blind source separation using supervised and unsupervised NMF, we show how the framework is useful for the increasingly popular audio feature extraction methods by NMF. Furthermore, we point out a numerical optimization for NMF, and show that NMF source separation in real-time on a desktop PC is feasible with our implementation. We conclude with an evaluation of our toolkit on supervised speaker separation, demonstrating how our algorithmic framework allows to tune the real-time factors to the desired perceptual quality.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Proceedings
Pages1625-1628
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 22 May 201127 May 2011

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period22/05/1127/05/11

Keywords

  • Blind Source Separation
  • Instrument Separation
  • Real-Time Signal Processing
  • Speech Enhancement

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