Blind Source Separation Coping with the Change of the Number of Sources

  • Authors:
  • Masanori Ito;Noboru Ohnishi;Ali Mansour;Mitsuru Kawamoto

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan 464---8603;Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan 464---8603;Lab. E3I2, ENSIETA, Brest cedex 09, France 29806;Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan 305---8568 and Bio-mimetic Control Research Center, RIKEN, Nagoya, Japan 463---0003

  • Venue:
  • Neural Information Processing
  • Year:
  • 2008

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This manuscript deals with the blind source separation problem with an instantaneous but dynamical mixture model. This study is limited to the case when the number of sources is time-variant. Theoretically, when new sources are detected, a new separating matrix should be estimated in order to extract all sources. However this effort implies an overwhelm computational cost. Our idea consists to use the previous separating matrix which was estimated before the appearance of the new sources. Owing to this point, the computational time and cost can be effectively reduced compared with the conventional separation scheme. Our new algorithm was corroborated with many simulations. Some results are given in the manuscript. The obtained and presented results clearly show that the proposed method outperformed the conventional method in processing time as well as in separation quality.