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This paper presents a method for solving the permutation problem of frequency domain blind source separation (BSS) when the number of source signals is large, and the potential source locations are omnidirectional. We propose a combination of small and large spacing sensor pairs with various axis directions in order to obtain proper geometric information for solving the permutation problem. Experimental results in a room (reverberation time T R=130 ms) with eight microphones show that the proposed method can separate a mixture of six speech signals that come from various directions, even when two of them come from the same direction.
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Mukai, R., Sawada, H., Araki, S., Makino, S. (2004). Frequency Domain Blind Source Separation for Many Speech Signals. In: Puntonet, C.G., Prieto, A. (eds) Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation. ICA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3195. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30110-3_59
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