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Multi-Track Crosstalk Reduction Using Spectral Subtraction

Authors: Seipel, Fabian; Lerch, Alexander

AES Convention 144 · Paper 10013 · May 2018

Abstract

While many music-related blind source separation methods focus on mono or stereo material, the detection and reduction of crosstalk in multi-track recordings is less researched. Crosstalk or “bleed” of one recorded channel in another is a very common phenomenon in specific genres such as jazz and classical, where all instrumentalists are recorded simultaneously. We present an efficient algorithm that estimates the crosstalk amount in the spectral domain and applies spectral subtraction to remove it. Randomly generated artificial mixtures from various anechoic orchestral source material were employed to develop and evaluate the algorithm, which scores an average SIR-Gain result of 15.14 dB on various datasets with different amounts of simulated crosstalk.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 144
AES Convention
144
Paper number
10013
Publication date
May 6, 2018
Session subject
Audio Processing and Effects – Part 2
Affiliation
TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper