Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Parry, Robert Mitchell
URN	etd-10052007-144600
Title	Separation and Analysis of Multichannel Signals
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	Computing
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Essa, Irfan Committee Chair Basu, Sumit Committee Member Bobick, Aaron Committee Member Ellis, Dan Committee Member Isbell, Charles Committee Member Weinberg, Gil Committee Member
Keywords	source separation independent component analysis audio processing unsupervised learning time-frequency rerpesentations
Date of Defense	2007-08-20
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Music recordings contain the mixed contribution of multiple overlapping instruments. In order to better understand the music, it would be beneficial to understand each instrument independently. This thesis focuses on separating the individual instrument recordings within a song. In particular, we propose novel algorithms for separating instrument recordings given only their mixture. When the number of source signals does not exceed the number of mixture signals, we focus on a subclass of source separation algorithms based on joint diagonalization. Each approach leverages a different form of source structure. We introduce repetitive structure as an alternative that leverages unique repetition patterns in music and compare its performance against the other techniques. When the number of source signals exceeds the number of mixtures (i.e. the underdetermined problem), we focus on spectrogram factorization techniques for source separation. We extend single-channel techniques to utilize the additional spatial information in multichannel recordings, and use phase information to improve the estimation of the underlying components.
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