Efficient Overdetermined Independent Vector Analysis Based on Iterative Projection with Adjustment

In this paper, a computationally efficient optimization algorithm for independent vector analysis (IVA) is proposed to accelerate iterative convergence speed and enhance the overdetermined convolutive blind speech separation performance. An iterative projection with adjustment (IPA) is investigated to estimate the unmixing matrix for OverIVA. The IPA algorithm jointly executes the iterative projection (IP) algorithm and the iterative source steering (ISS) algorithm to jointly update one row and one column of the mixing matrix, which can perform computationally-efficient blind source separation. It is achieved by updating one demixing filter and jointly adjusting all the other sources along its current direction. Motivated by its technology superiorities, this paper proposes a modified algorithm for the OverIVA, fully exploiting the computational efficiency of IPA optimization scheme. Experimental results corroborate the proposed OverIVA-IPA algorithm converges faster and performs better than the existing state-of-the-arts algorithms.