Source number estimation in reverberant conditions via full-band weighted, adaptive fuzzy c-means clustering

We introduce a novel approach for source number estimation through an adaptive fuzzy c-means clustering. Spatial feature vectors are extracted from microphone observations, weighted for reliability and then clustered in a full-band manner using an adaptive variation on the fuzzy c-means. A number of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hollick, J., Jafari, I., Togneri, R., Nordholm, Sven
Other Authors: ICASSP 2014 Publication Chair Maria Sabrina Greco
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35254
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Summary:We introduce a novel approach for source number estimation through an adaptive fuzzy c-means clustering. Spatial feature vectors are extracted from microphone observations, weighted for reliability and then clustered in a full-band manner using an adaptive variation on the fuzzy c-means. A number of quality measures are combined to produce a weighted sum which is used to find the optimal number of clusters at each iteration of the clustering algorithm. Experimental evaluations using real-world recordings from a reverberant room (RT60 = 390 ms) demonstrated encouraging performance in both even- and under-determined conditions.