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论文类型：期刊论文

发表时间：2004-01-01

发表刊物：International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISSN 2004)

收录刊物：SCIE、CPCI-S、Scopus

卷号：3173

页面范围：755-760

ISSN号：0302-9743

摘要：In natural environment, speech often occurs concurrently with acoustic interference. How to effectively extract speech remains a great challenge. This paper describes a novel constrained Independent Component Analysis (ICA) approach, the ICA with reference (ICA-R), to speech segregation. Different from the traditional ICA which recovers simultaneously all the source signals, the ICA-R extracts only some desired source signals from the mixtures of source signals by incorporating some a priori information into the separation process. We show how the ICA-R can be applied to separate a target speech signal from interfering sounds by exploiting a proper reference signal, which is based on the different characteristic between speech signal and its environmental noises, i.e., the speech signal has pitch and its harmonic frequencies whereas the noises usually do not. Results of computer experiments demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.