Signal Enhancement by Single Channel Source Separation

Abstract

Most gadgets and electronics devices are commonly equipped with single microphone only. This is difficult task in source separation world which traditionally required more sensors than sources to achieve better performance. In this paper we evaluated single channel source separation to enhance target signal from interred noise. The method we used is non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) that decompose signal into its components and find the matched signal to target speaker. As objective evaluation, coherence score is used to measure the perceptual similarity from enhanced to original one. It show the extracted has 0.5 of average coherence that shows medium correlation between both signals.