Independent vector analysis: an extension of ICA to multivariate components

  • Authors:
  • Taesu Kim;Torbjørn Eltoft;Te-Won Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD;Department of Physics, University of Tromsø, Norway;Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD

  • 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 paper, we solve an ICA problem where both source and observation signals are multivariate, thus, vectorized signals. To derive the algorithm, we define dependence between vectors as Kullback-Leibler divergence between joint probability and the product of marginal probabilities, and propose a vector density model that has a variance dependency within a source vector. The example shows that the algorithm successfully recovers the sources and it does not cause any permutation ambiguities within the sources. Finally, we propose the frequency domain blind source separation (BSS) for convolutive mixtures as an application of IVA, which separates 6 speeches with 6 microphones in a reverberant room environment.