Itakura-Saito nonnegative matrix factorization with group sparsity

Augustin Lefevre (1, 2, 3) , Francis Bach (1, 3) , Cédric Févotte (2)

1 LIENS - Laboratoire d'informatique de l'école normale supérieure
2 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information
3 SIERRA - Statistical Machine Learning and Parsimony

We propose an unsupervised inference procedure for audio source separation. Components in nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) are grouped automatically in audio sources via a penalized maximum likelihood approach. The penalty term we introduce favors sparsity at the group level, and is motivated by the assumption that the local amplitude of the sources are independent. Our algorithm extends multiplicative updates for NMF; moreover we propose a test statistic to tune hyperparameters in our model, and illustrate its adequacy on synthetic data. Results on real audio tracks show that our sparsity prior allows to identify audio sources without knowledge on their spectral properties.

Domains: Machine Learning [cs.LG]; Signal and Image processing; Signal and Image Processing

Augustin Lefevre, Francis Bach, Cédric Févotte. Itakura-Saito nonnegative matrix factorization with group sparsity. 36th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2011, Prague, Czech Republic. ⟨hal-00567344⟩