VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

BELAGAVI

A
Project Synopsis
On
“ COCKTAIL PARTY PROBLEM ”

Submitted in the partial fulfillment of the requirement of VII Semester

Bachelor of Engineering
By
RAJEEV SRINIVAS 1SG16CS080
RAHUL PRABHU 1SG16CS079
SALIL SANKRITYA 1SG16CS091
SHANTANU PAWAR 1SG16CS097
Under the guidance of
SRIKANTHA GOWDA R
Associate Professor , Dept. of CSE

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

SAPTHAGIRI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
(Affiliated to VTU, Belagavi, Approved by AICTE, New Delhi)
14/5, Hesaraghatta Main Road, Bangalore-57
2019-2020
TITLE OF THE PROJECT:
The Cocktail Party Problem

ABSTRACT:

This work introduces a new method called Self Organizing Neural Network (SONN)
algorithm and compares its performance with Back Propagation in a signal separation
application. The problem is to separate two signals; a modem data signal and a male
speech signal, added and transmitted through a 4 khz channel. The signals are sampled at 8
khz, and using supervised learning, an attempt is made to reconstruct them. The SONN is
an algorithm that constructs its own network topology during training, which is shown to
be much smaller than the BP network, faster to trained, and free from the trial-anderror
network design that characterize BP.

INTRODUCTION
In Neural Networks has witnessed major changes in algorithm design focus, motivated by
the limitations perceived in the algorithms available at the time. With the extensive work
performed in that last few years using multilayered networks, it was soon discovered that
these networks present limitations in tasks.
(a)that are difficult to determine problem complexity a priori, and thus design network of
the correct size
(b) training not only takes prohibitively long times, but requires a large number of samples
as well as fine parameter adjustment, without guarantee of convergence
(c) such networks do not handle the system identification task efficiently for systems whose
time varying structure changes radically
(d) the trained network is little more than a black box of weights and connections, revealing
little about the problem structure

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The Problem informs about the phenomenon that people can understand and track speech
in a noisy environment, even when the noise is being made by other speakers.. The task
presented to the network is to separate both signals. To compare the accuracy of the signal
separation between the SONN and the Back Propagation algorithms a normalized RMSE is
used as a performance index:
Normalized RMSE = RMSE /StandardDevision
WHY IS THE PARTICULAR TOPIC CHOSEN?
We have choose this particular problem based on the article by MIT on the cocktail party
problem for particularly hearing the song being played in a disco in a large crowd by
filtering all the unwanted noises .

OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE OF THE PROJECT:

The objective is to hear filtered music from the unwanted noise.

The scope of it is in any noisy environment to hear filtered music

METHODOLOGY:
First we select the preferred music as the data sets and based on the data sets it gets
filtered into wanted and unwanted music files.

POSSIBLE OUTCOMES:
In this study, we proposed a new approach for the signal separation filter design based on a
flexible, self-organize neural network (SONN) algorithm. The variable structure provides the
optimality to search and construct the optimal model based on input-output observations. The
SONN approach demonstrates potential usefulness as a tool for non linear signal processing
function design.

REFERENCES:

S. Ikeda, M. Ochiai and Y. Sawarogi, (1976) "Sequential GMDH Algorithm and its
Application to River Flow Prediction," IEEE Trans S.M.C., Vol. SMC-6, no.7, pp. 473-479,
July.
M. F. M. Tenorio and W.-T. Lee, (1988) "Self-Organizing Neural Network for the
Identification Problem," Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems I, David S.
Touretzky ed., pp. 57-64.
M. F. Tenorio, (1990) "Self-Organizing Neural Network for the Signal Separation
Problem," to be submitted.
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