Blind Speech Separation by Shoji Makino

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However, as speech and audio signal mixtures in a real reverberant environment are generally convolutive mixtures, they involve a structurally much more ch- lenging task than instantaneous mixtures, which are prevalent in many other applications.

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Blind Speech Separation by Shoji Makino

We are surrounded by sounds. Such a noisy environment makes it di?cult to obtain desired speech and it is di?cult to converse comfortably there. This makes it important to be able to separate and extract a target speech signal from noisy observations for both man-machine and human-human communication. Blindsourceseparation(BSS)isanapproachforestimatingsourcesignals using only information about their mixtures observed in each input channel. The estimation is performed without possessing information on each source, such as its frequency characteristics and location, or on how the sources are mixed. The use of BSS in the development of comfortable acoustic com- nication channels between humans and machines is widely accepted. Some books have been published on BSS, independent component ana- sis (ICA), and related subjects. There, ICA-based BSS has been well studied in the statistics and information theory ?elds, for applications to a variety of disciplines including wireless communication and biomedicine. However, as speech and audio signal mixtures in a real reverberant environment are generally convolutive mixtures, they involve a structurally much more ch- lenging task than instantaneous mixtures, which are prevalent in many other applications.

SHOJI MAKINO (F) received the B. E., M. E., and Ph.D. degrees from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1979, 1981, and 1993, respectively. He joined NTT in 1981. He is now a Professor at University of Tsukuba. His research interests include adaptive filtering technologies, realization of acoustic echo cancellation, blind source separation of convolutive mixtures of speech, and acoustic signal processing for speech and audio applications.

Dr. Makino received the IEEE SPS Best Paper Award in 2014, the IEEE MLSP Competition Award in 2007, the ICA Unsupervised Learning Pioneer Award in 2006, the Commendation for Science and Technology of Japanese Government in 2015, the TELECOM System Technology Award in 2015 and 2004, the Achievement Award of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE) in 1997, and the Outstanding Technological Development Award of the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ) in 1995, the Paper Award of the IEICE in 2005 and 2002, the Paper Award of the ASJ in 2005 and 2002. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 articles in journals and conference proceedings and is responsible for more than 150 patents. He was a Keynote Speaker at ICA2007 and a Tutorial speaker at EMBC 2013, Interspeech 2011 and ICASSP 2007.

Dr. Makino IEEE activities include: Member, SPS Technical Directions Board (2013-14), SPS Awards Board (2006-08), SPS Conference Board (2002-04), IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal Committee (2015-), IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech & Audio Processing Award Committee (2008-11) and Member and Chair, SPS Audio and Electroacoustics Technical Committee (1993-09 and 2013-14, respectively); SPS Distinguished Lecturer (2009-10); Chair, Circuits and Systems Society Blind Signal Processing Technical Committee (2009-2010); Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing (2002-05) and EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2005-2012). He was the Vice President, Engineering Sciences Society of the IEICE (2007-08) and Chair, Engineering Acoustics Technical Committee of the IEICE (2006-08). He is a Member, International IWAENC Standing committee and International ICA Steering Committee; General Chair, WASPAA2007 and IWAENC2003; Organizing Chair, ICA2003; and Plenary Chair, ICASSP2012.

Dr. Makino is an IEEE Fellow, an IEICE Fellow, a Board member of the ASJ, and a member of EURASIP and ISCA.

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ISBN 13 9781402064784
ISBN 10 1402064780
Title Blind Speech Separation
Author Shoji Makino
Series Signals And Communication Technology
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Year published 2007-09-20
Number of pages 432
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