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Inter-channel feature extraction method, audio separation method and apparatus, and computing device

US11908483B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 12, 2021
Grant dateFeb 20, 2024
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Expiry dateJul 1, 2042

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04S5/00
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

This application relates to a method of extracting an inter channel feature from a multi-channel multi-sound source mixed audio signal performed at a computing device. The method includes: transforming one channel component of a multi-channel multi-sound source mixed audio signal into a single-channel multi-sound source mixed audio representation in a feature space; performing a two-dimensional dilated convolution on the multi-channel multi-sound source mixed audio signal to extract inter-channel features; performing a feature fusion on the single-channel multi-sound source mixed audio representation and the inter-channel features; estimating respective weights of sound sources in the single-channel multi-sound source mixed audio representation based on a fused multi-channel multi-sound source mixed audio feature; obtaining respective representations of the plurality of sound sources according to the single-channel multi-sound source mixed audio representation and the respective weights; and transforming the respective representations of the sound sources into respective audio signals of the plurality of sound sources.

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