scholarly journals Blind Audio Source Separation Using Independent Component Analysis and Independent Vector Analysis

Author(s):  
alyaa mahdi ◽  
Ahmet Elbir ◽  
Fethullah Karabiber
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (14) ◽  
pp. 357-1-357-6
Author(s):  
Luisa F. Polanía ◽  
Raja Bala ◽  
Ankur Purwar ◽  
Paul Matts ◽  
Martin Maltz

Human skin is made up of two primary chromophores: melanin, the pigment in the epidermis giving skin its color; and hemoglobin, the pigment in the red blood cells of the vascular network within the dermis. The relative concentrations of these chromophores provide a vital indicator for skin health and appearance. We present a technique to automatically estimate chromophore maps from RGB images of human faces captured with mobile devices such as smartphones. The ultimate goal is to provide a diagnostic aid for individuals to monitor and improve the quality of their facial skin. A previous method approaches the problem as one of blind source separation, and applies Independent Component Analysis (ICA) in camera RGB space to estimate the chromophores. We extend this technique in two important ways. First we observe that models for light transport in skin call for source separation to be performed in log spectral reflectance coordinates rather than in RGB. Thus we transform camera RGB to a spectral reflectance space prior to applying ICA. This process involves the use of a linear camera model and Principal Component Analysis to represent skin spectral reflectance as a lowdimensional manifold. The camera model requires knowledge of the incident illuminant, which we obtain via a novel technique that uses the human lip as a calibration object. Second, we address an inherent limitation with ICA that the ordering of the separated signals is random and ambiguous. We incorporate a domain-specific prior model for human chromophore spectra as a constraint in solving ICA. Results on a dataset of mobile camera images show high quality and unambiguous recovery of chromophores.


Algorithms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Shiyu Guo ◽  
Mengna Shi ◽  
Yanqi Zhou ◽  
Jiayin Yu ◽  
Erfu Wang

As the main method of information transmission, it is particularly important to ensure the security of speech communication. Considering the more complex multipath channel transmission situation in the wireless communication of speech signals and separating or extracting the source signal from the convolutional signal are crucial steps in obtaining source information. In this paper, chaotic masking technology is used to guarantee the transmission safety of speech signals, and a fast fixed-point independent vector analysis algorithm is used to solve the problem of convolutional blind source separation. First, the chaotic masking is performed before the speech signal is sent, and the convolutional mixing process of multiple signals is simulated by impulse response filter. Then, the observed signal is transformed to the frequency domain by short-time Fourier transform, and instantaneous blind source separation is performed using a fast fixed-point independent vector analysis algorithm. The algorithm can preserve the high-order statistical correlation between frequencies to solve the permutation ambiguity problem in independent component analysis. Simulation experiments show that this algorithm can efficiently complete the blind extraction of convolutional signals, and the quality of recovered speech signals is better. It provides a solution for the secure transmission and effective separation of speech signals in multipath transmission channels.


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