Single Channel Audio Source Separation using Convolutional Denoising Autoencoders

Deep learning techniques have been used recently to tackle the audio source separation problem. In this work, we propose to use deep convolution denoising auto-encoders (CDAEs) for monaural audio source separation. We use as many CDAEs as the number of sources to be separated from the mixed signal. Each CDAE is trained to separate one source and treats the other sources as background noise. The main idea is to allow each CDAE to learn suitable time-frequency filters and features to its corresponding source. Our experimental results show that CDAEs perform source separation slightly better than the deep feedforward neural networks (FNNs) even with a much less number of parameters than FNNs.