Complex NMF under phase constraints based on signal modeling: Application to audio source separation

Paul Magron, Roland Badeau, Bertrand David

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Abstract

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a powerful tool for decomposing mixtures of audio signals in the Time-Frequency (TF) domain. In the source separation framework, the phase recovery for each extracted component is necessary for synthesizing time-domain signals. The Complex NMF (CNMF) model aims to jointly estimate the spectrogram and the phase of the sources, but requires to constrain the phase in order to produce satisfactory sounding results. We propose to incorporate phase constraints based on signal models within the CNMF framework: a phase unwrapping constraint that enforces a form of temporal coherence, and a constraint based on the repetition of audio events, which models the phases of the sources within onset frames. We also provide an algorithm for estimating the model parameters. The experimental results highlight the interest of including such constraints in the CNMF framework for separating overlapping components in complex audio mixtures.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages46-50
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781479999880
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 May 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 20 Mar 201625 Mar 2016

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2016-May
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period20/03/1625/03/16

Keywords

  • Nonnegative matrix factorization
  • phase recovery
  • phase unwrapping
  • repeated audio events
  • source separation

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