Unsupervised Blind Speech Separation with a Diffusion Prior

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Title: Unsupervised Blind Speech Separation with a Diffusion Prior
Autores: Xu, Zhongweiyang, Fan, Xulin, Wang, Zhong-Qiu, Jiang, Xilin, Choudhury, Romit Roy
Ano de Publicación: 2025
Colección: Computer Science
Subject Terms: Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Multimedia, Computer Science - Sound, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Signal Processing
Descripción: Blind Speech Separation (BSS) aims to separate multiple speech sources from audio mixtures recorded by a microphone array. The problem is challenging because it is a blind inverse problem, i.e., the microphone array geometry, the room impulse response (RIR), and the speech sources, are all unknown. We propose ArrayDPS to solve the BSS problem in an unsupervised, array-agnostic, and generative manner. The core idea builds on diffusion posterior sampling (DPS), but unlike DPS where the likelihood is tractable, ArrayDPS must approximate the likelihood by formulating a separate optimization problem. The solution to the optimization approximates room acoustics and the relative transfer functions between microphones. These approximations, along with the diffusion priors, iterate through the ArrayDPS sampling process and ultimately yield separated voice sources. We only need a simple single-speaker speech diffusion model as a prior along with the mixtures recorded at the microphones; no microphone array information is necessary. Evaluation results show that ArrayDPS outperforms all baseline unsupervised methods while being comparable to supervised methods in terms of SDR. Audio demos are provided at: https://arraydps.github.io/ArrayDPSDemo/.
Comment: Paper Accepted at ICML2025 Demo: https://arraydps.github.io/ArrayDPSDemo/ Code: https://github.com/ArrayDPS/ArrayDPS
Tipo de documento: Working Paper
URL de acceso: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05657
Número de acceso: edsarx.2505.05657
Base de Datos: arXiv
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