ICA '99 BSS TEST SETS

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Purpose

This database has been made available so that researches which participate in ICA '99 can try their algorithms on the same data. This makes it possible to compare their results. All files are in "WAV" format which can be played through your web browser and can be loaded into Matlab using "wavread".

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The Paper

The paper "Evaluation of Blind Signal Separation Methods" describes the testing of BSS algorithm. It is written by Daniël Schobben, Kari Torkkola and Paris Smaragdis and is published in Proceedings Int. Workshop Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation, Aussois, France, January 11-15, 1999, pp. 261-266.
Click here to download the full paper (PDF).

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The Data Sets

The data sets are speech/music cases only.

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The Evaluation Code

The data set can be used to evaluate the performance of BSS algorithms. In addition Matlab code for evaluation is made available so that research efforts can be compared.

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Acknowledgements

Various people of the following parties have given support for the recording of the data set or have contributed in another way to this work (in alfabethic order);

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