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UNSUPERVISED TRAINING OF A DEEP CLUSTERING MODEL FOR MULTICHANNEL BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION
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- Lukas Drude
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- 10 May 2019 - 12:34pm
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- Poster
- Document Year:
- 2019
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- Presenters:
- Lukas Drude
- Paper Code:
- 1819
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We propose a training scheme to train neural network-based source separation algorithms from scratch when parallel clean data is unavailable. In particular, we demonstrate that an unsupervised spatial clustering algorithm is sufficient to guide the training of a deep clustering system. We argue that previous work on deep clustering requires strong supervision and elaborate on why this is a limitation. We demonstrate that (a) the single-channel deep clustering system trained according to the proposed scheme alone is able to achieve a similar performance as the multi-channel teacher in terms of word error rates and (b) initializing the spatial clustering approach with the deep clustering result yields a relative word error rate reduction of 26 % over the unsupervised teacher.