Abstract: This paper presents a variable projection based method, used along with the forward-backward matrix pencil method, for the synthesis of linear arrays with shaped-beam patterns employing a ...

Abstract: A model-based non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) algorithm is formulated for single-channel speech source separation. With linguistic priors of the speech sources, the state-aligned ...

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