ABSTRACT

Blind source separation is the separation of a set of source signals from a set of mixed signals,
without the aid of information (or with very little information) about the source signals or the
mixing process. This problem is in general highly underdetermined, but useful solutions can be
derived under a surprising variety of conditions. A new method that allows the blind source
separation by the analysis of independent components known as FASTICA in the domain of
Wavelet is used to observe his behavior on signs captured in a real environment. The problem
that tries to be solved in Blind Source Separation (BSS) consists of recovering signs statistically
independent. Nevertheless, certain difficulties appear when this system is applied to real signs,
on the one hand the effect of the reverberation does that the mixtures gathered by the
microphones are convolution mix; and on the other hand, these mixtures will not be totally
independent. We did two experiments. With the first experiment we separated 2 audio signals
with a very low percentage of error. With the second experiment we recorded 3 different audio
sources with an array of 3 microphones, and then from one audio recorded source 3 signals
were separated, we appreciate that in each source one signal was amplified and the other two
signals were fallen down. From the results, the method that we proposed is able to separate from
one mixed audio signal 2 or even 3 independent signals.