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     *  contact information (name, affiliation)

Hiroshi Sawada, NTT Communication Science Laboratories

     * basic information about his/her algorithm

Needed prior information: the number of source signals.

The algorithm is based on multichannel NMF with IS-divergence
(reference below), optimized by some heuristics.
The number of NMF bases was set to 10.

Reference: H. Sawada, H. Kameoka, S. Araki, N. Ueda, "Efficient
Algorithms for Multichannel Extensions of Itakura-Saito Nonnegative
Matrix Factorization," ICASSP 2012, submitted.

     * for dev1__tamy-que_pena_tanto_faz__snip_6_19__mix.wav

Computational time: 1213.26 sec (for 300 iterations), using Intel Xeon
W3690 3.46GHz (6 cores, but Parallel Computing disabled), Matlab
Averaged SDR calculated: 10.21 db.

     * for test1__tamy-que_pena_tanto_faz__snip__mix.wav

Computational time: 1783.75 sec (for 300 iterations), using Intel Xeon
W3690 3.46GHz (6 cores, but Parallel Computing disabled), Matlab