Blind Source Separation for Robot Audition Using Fixed Beamforming with HRTFs
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We present a two stage blind source separation (BSS) algorithm for robot audition. The algorithm is based on a beamforming preprocessing and a BSS algorithm using a sparsity separation criterion. Before the BSS step, we filter the sensors outputs by beamforming filters to reduce the reverberation and the environmental noise. As we are in a robot audition context, the manifold of the sensor array in this case is hard to model, so we use pre-measured Head Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) to estimate the beamforming filters. In this article, we show the good performance of this method as compared to a single stage BSS only method.
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