Estimating non-gaussian subspaces by characteristic functions

  • Authors:
  • Motoaki Kawanabe;Fabian J. Theis

  • Affiliations:
  • Fraunhofer FIRST.IDA, Germany;Institute of Biophysics, University of Regensburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICA'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this article, we consider high-dimensional data which contains a low-dimensional non-Gaussian structure contaminated with Gaussian noise and propose a new method to identify the non-Gaussian subspace. A linear dimension reduction algorithm based on the fourth-order cumulant tensor was proposed in our previous work [4]. Although it works well for sub-Gaussian structures, the performance is not satisfactory for super-Gaussian data due to outliers. To overcome this problem, we construct an alternative by using Hessian of characteristic functions which was applied to (multidimensional) independent component analysis [10,11]. A numerical study demonstrates the validity of our method.