Blind signal separation based on band division using QMF Bank

Abstract

Blind signal separation method is the method that the source signals are obtained by separating only the mixed signals. Generally, separation precision is lower when the basic method of blind signal separation is used for the sound signals. It is the cause that the power of the sound signals is concentrated in the low-frequency band. For the problem, we already considered that the method of the blind signal separation using QMF. Specifically, the mixed signals are divided into two frequency bands, and we perform suitable separation for each two bands. As the result, the conventional method has higher separation precision than the basic method. However, in the low-frequency band, power spectrum is not constant for frequency. Therefore, it is expected that the separation precision is higher than the conventional method by performing the suitable separation for each of signals based on the division to several narrow frequency bands on the low-frequency band. Then, in this paper, we propose the method that has higher separation precision and we evaluate the proposed method by computer simulation.