System and method for non-square blind source separation under coherent noise by beamforming and time-frequency masking

摘要

A system and method for non-square blind source separation (BSS) under coherent noise. The system and method for non-square BSS estimates the mixing parameters of a mixed source signal and filters the estimated mixing parameters so that output noise is reduced and the mixed source signal is separated from the noise. The filtering is accomplished by a linear filter that performs a beamforming for reducing the noise and another linear filter that solves a source separation problem by selecting time-frequency points where, according to a W-disjoint orthogonality assumption, only one source is active.