Asari, Hiroki and Pearlmutter, Barak A. and Zador, Anthony M. (2006) Sparse Representations for the Cocktail Party Problem. Journal of Neuroscience, 26 (28). pp. 7477-7490. ISSN 0270-6474

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Abstract

A striking feature of many sensory processing problems is that there appear to be many more neurons engaged in the internal representations of the signal than in its transduction. For example, humans have ~ 30,000 cochlear neurons, but at least 1000 times as many neurons in the auditory cortex. Such apparently redundant internal representations have sometimes been proposed as necessary to overcome neuronal noise. We instead posit that they directly subserve computations of interest. Here we provide an example of how sparse overcomplete linear representations can directly solve difficult acoustic signal processing problems, using as an example monaural source separation using solely the cues provided by the differential filtering imposed on a source by its path from its origin to the cochlea [the head-related transfer function (HRTF)]. In contrast to much previous work, the HRTF is used here to separate auditory streams rather than to localize them in space. The experimentally testable predictions that arise from this model, including a novel method for estimating the optimal stimulus of a neuron using data from a multineuron recording experiment, are generic and apply to a wide range of sensory computations.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	auditory processing; optimality; receptive field; sparse coding; stream segregation; cortical representation;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
Item ID:	5529
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1563-06.2006
Depositing User:	Barak Pearlmutter
Date Deposited:	03 Nov 2014 15:12
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Neuroscience
Publisher:	Society for Neuroscience
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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