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Complex-valued independent component analysis for online blind speech extraction

Sällberg, Benny ; Grbic, Nedelko LU and Claesson, Ingvar LU (2008) In IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 16(8). p.1624-1632
Abstract
This paper presents a theoretical analysis of a
certain criterion for complex-valued independent component
analysis (ICA) with a focus on blind speech extraction (BSE) of a
spatio–temporally nonstationary speech source. In the paper, the
proposed criteria denoted KSICA is related to the well-known FastICA
method with the Kurtosis contrast function. The proposed
method is shown to share the important fixed-point feature with
the FastICA method, although an improvement with the proposed
method is that it does not exhibit the divergent behavior for a
mixture of Gaussian-only sources that the FastICA method tends
to do, and it shows better performance in online implementations.
Compared to the... (More)
This paper presents a theoretical analysis of a
certain criterion for complex-valued independent component
analysis (ICA) with a focus on blind speech extraction (BSE) of a
spatio–temporally nonstationary speech source. In the paper, the
proposed criteria denoted KSICA is related to the well-known FastICA
method with the Kurtosis contrast function. The proposed
method is shown to share the important fixed-point feature with
the FastICA method, although an improvement with the proposed
method is that it does not exhibit the divergent behavior for a
mixture of Gaussian-only sources that the FastICA method tends
to do, and it shows better performance in online implementations.
Compared to the FastICA, the KSICA method provides a 10 dB
higher source extraction performance and a 10 dB lower standard
deviation in a data batch approach when the data batch size is
less than 100 samples. For larger batch sizes, the KSICA metod
performs equally well. In an online application with spatially
stationary sources the KSICA method provides around 10 dB
higher interference suppression, and 1 MOS-unit lower speech
distortion compared to the FastICA for 0.15 s time constant in
the algorithm update parameter. Thus, the FastICA performance
matches the KSICA performance for a time constant above 1 s.
Finally, in an online application with a moving speech source, the
KSICA method provides 10 dB higher interference suppression,
compared to the FastICA for the same algorithm settings. All in
all, the proposed KSICA method is shown to be a viab (Less)
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  author       = {{Sällberg, Benny and Grbic, Nedelko and Claesson, Ingvar}},
  issn         = {{1558-7916}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{8}},
  pages        = {{1624--1632}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  series       = {{IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing}},
  title        = {{Complex-valued independent component analysis for online blind speech extraction}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASL.2008.2002058}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/TASL.2008.2002058}},
  volume       = {{16}},
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