Kurtosis-based projection pursuit for signal separation of traditional musical instruments

Atik Wintarti, Yoyon K. Suprapto, Wirawan

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Abstract

Signal separation is a substantial problem in digital signal processing. The objective of signal separation from a musical composition is to decompose the composition into signals of individual musical instruments. One method that can be used is Projection Pursuit (PP) that similar with Independent Component Analysis (ICA). PP can determine source signals by projecting the data to find the most non-Gaussian distribution. In this paper we propose a method based on kurtosis as a criteria to determine non-Gaussianity. We use Mean Square Error (MSE) and Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) to evaluate the accuracy of signal separation. We conducted an experiment on a synthetic and real signal mixture of traditional musical instruments i.e. Javanese Gamelan. The result showed that the minimum value of MSE for separation signal using Kurtosis-based PP (K-PP) is 1.02 × 105 lower than FastICA and PP. Meanwhile, the maximum value of SNR with the proposed method is 42.13 dB higher than the others.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)57-66
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
Volume90
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 31 Aug 2016

Keywords

  • Independent component analysis (ICA)
  • Kurtosis
  • Non-Gaussian
  • Projection Pursuit (PP)
  • Separation

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