Source separation with scattering Non-Negative Matrix Factorization

Abstract

This paper presents a single-channel source separation method that extends the ideas of Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF). We interpret the approach of audio demixing via NMF as a cascade of a pooled analysis operator, given for example by the magnitude spectrogram, and a synthesis operators given by the matrix decomposition. Instead of imposing the temporal consistency of the decomposition through sophisticated structured penalties in the synthesis stage, we propose to change the analysis operator for a deep scattering representation, where signals are represented at several time resolutions. This new signal representation is invariant to smooth changes in the signal, consistent with its temporal dynamics. We evaluate the proposed approach in a speech separation task obtaining promising results.