Applied Math Seminar
Winter Quarter 2008
SPECIAL TIME: 3:30 p.m.
Sloan Mathematics Corner
Building 380, Room 380-C


Friday, February 22, 2008

Jack Xin
Mathematics
University of California at Irvine

Time and Frequency Domain Methods of Blind Source Separation


Abstract:

Blind source separation aims to recover source signals from the received convolutive mixtures in an unknown environment. Nonlinear algebraic equations and associated minimization problems are derived from statistical independence of source signals. However, solutions are not unique, and minimization is non-convex. Additional selection criteria are introduced based on properties of room impulse responses, times scales of signal spectral dynamics, and L1 minimization. Two recent time and frequency domain methods will be discussed and results on recorded speech/music signals will be demonstrated.