Audio Source Separation

I am working in the area of Monaural Blind Source Separation.

I want to suggest using the Sound Quality Assessment Material from the
EBU as a dataset for audio blind source separation. The audio files are
freely available in the internet, have CD-quality and consists mainly of
single instrument recordings ranging from single notes to whole melodies
played by the instrument. The whole CD could be downloaded at:
http://tech.ebu.ch/publications/sqamcd

To make my test set even larger I additionally use some of the
instrument loops of Apples Garage Band. They are accessible for each one
posssessing a Mac. I don't think that it is legal to set such loops
freely available in the internet, but the correct files could be
described in such a way that each one possessing a Mac could get the
corresponding files.

These are my current ideas regarding a possible test set for a blind
source separation task.

With best regards,

Martin Spiertz (Institut fur Nachrichtentechnik)

(Audio committee uploaded this message on behalf of Dr Spiertz.)