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Direction Specific Ambisonics Source Separation with End-To-End Deep Learning
Francesc Lluís, Nils Meyer-Kahlen, Vasileios Chatziioannou, Alex Hofmann
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Ambisonics is a scene-based spatial audio format that has several useful features compared to object-based formats, such as efficient whole scene rotation and versatility. However, it does not provide direct access to the individual source signals, so that these have to be separated from the mixture when required. Typically, this is done with linear spherical harmonics (SH) beamforming. In this paper, we explore deep-learning-based source separation on static Ambisonics mixtures. In contrast to most source separation approaches, which separate a fixed number of sources of specific sound types, we focus on separating arbitrary sound from specific directions. Specifically, we propose three operating modes that combine a source separation neural network with SH beamforming: refinement, implicit, and mixed mode. We show that a neural network can implicitly associate conditioning directions with the spatial information contained in the Ambisonics scene to extract specific sources. We evaluate the performance of the three proposed approaches and compare them to SH beamforming on musical mixtures generated with the musdb18 dataset, as well as with mixtures generated with the FUSS dataset for universal source separation, under both anechoic and room conditions. Results show that the proposed approaches offer improved separation performance and spatial selectivity compared to conventional SH beamforming.
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