Frequency domain blind source separation using small and large spacing sensor pairs

This work presents a method for solving the permutation problem of frequency domain blind source separation (BSS) when the number of source signals is large, and the potential source locations are omnidirectional. We propose a combination of small and large spacing sensor pairs with various axis directions in order to obtain proper geometrical information for solving the permutation problem. Experimental results show that the proposed method can separate a mixture of speech signals that came from various directions, even when two of them come from the same direction.

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