This letter deals with the frequency domain Blind Source Separation of Convolutive Mixtures (CMBSS). From the frequency representation of the "overlap and save", a Weighted General Discrete Fourier Transform (WGDFT) is derived to replace the traditional Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). The mixing matrix on each frequency bin could be estimated more precisely from WGDFT coefficients than from DFT coefficients, which improves separation performance. Simulation results verify the validity of WGDFT for frequency domain blind source separation of convolutive mixtures.
Most of the existing algorithms for blind sources separation have a limitation that sources are statistically independent. However, in many practical applications, the source signals are non- negative and mutual statistically dependent signals. When the observations are nonnegative linear combinations of nonnegative sources, the correlation coefficients of the observations are larger than these of source signals. In this letter, a novel Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) algorithm with least correlated component constraints to blind separation of convolutive mixed sources is proposed. The algorithm relaxes the source independence assumption and has low-complexity algebraic com- putations. Simulation results on blind source separation including real face image data indicate that the sources can be successfully recovered with the algorithm.
