Monaural sound source separation is the process of separating sound sources from a single channel mixture. In mixtures of pitched musical instruments, the problem of overlapping harmonics poses a significant challenge to source separation and reconstruction. One standard method to resolve overlapped harmonics is based on the assumption that harmonics of the same source have correlated amplitude...

Spherical microphone arrays provide a new and promising tool for the spatial analysis of complex sound fields. Most current frameworks, including HOA (Higher Order Ambisonics), rely on the spherical harmonic expansion of the sound field to form directional beams. Working in the spherical harmonic domain presents a number of advantages that include scalability (keeping the low-order components l...

Collaborative localization and discrimination of multiple acoustic sources is an important problem in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Localization approaches can be categorized as signal-based and feature-based methods. The signal-based methods are not suitable for collaborative localization in WSNs because they require transmission of raw acoustic data. In feature-based methods, signal featur...

Vocal effort modification of natural speech is an asset to various applications, in particular, for adding flexibility to concatenative voice synthesis systems. Although decreasing vocal effort is not particularly difficult, increasing vocal effort is a challenging issue. It requires the generation of artificial harmonics in the voice spectrum, along with transformation of the spectral envelope...

We employ a hybrid state-space sinusoidal model for general use in analysis-synthesis based audio transformations. This model, which has appeared previously in altered forms (e.g. [5], [8], perhaps others) combines the advantages of a source-filter model with the flexible, time-frequency based transformations of the sinusoidal model. For this paper, we specialize the parameter identification ta...

This paper deals with an indirect current controlled shunt active power filter (SAPF) for improving power quality by reactive power compensation and harmonic filtering. The presence of harmonics and reactive power in the power source because it will cause additional power losses and malfunctions. The proposed APF is based on a voltage source inverter (VSI). The VSI is controlled by two loops, t...

Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) and its improved method are introduced to detect and analyze power quality in ship power system for the first time, in this paper. The HHT method is used to detect surge current, voltage sag and swell, voltage interruption, etc. of the ship power system. By means of Hilbert-Huang transform, Beginning time, ending time, time-frequency, timeamplitude of the disturban...

New control circuits and algorithms are frequently proposed to control the impedance (Z) source inverter in efficient way with added benefits. As a result, several modified control techniques have been proposed in recent years. Although these techniques are clearly superior to the simple boost control method which was initially proposed along with the Z-source inverter (ZSI), little or conf...

We create a transient Bragg grating in a high-harmonic generation medium using two counterpropagating pulses. The Bragg grating disperses the harmonics in angle and can diffract a large bandwidth with temporal resolution limited only by the source size.

Recent work in blind source separation applied to anechoic mixtures of speech allows for reconstruction of sources that rarely overlap in a time-frequency representation. While the assumption that speech mixtures do not overlap significantly in time-frequency is reasonable, music mixtures rarely meet this constraint, requiring new approaches. We introduce a method that uses spatial cues from an...