A blind source separation technique using second-order statistics

  • Authors:
  • A. Belouchrani;K. Abed-Meraim;J.-F. Cardoso;E. Moulines

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Villanova Univ., PA;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Separation of sources consists of recovering a set of signals of which only instantaneous linear mixtures are observed. In many situations, no a priori information on the mixing matrix is available: The linear mixture should be “blindly” processed. This typically occurs in narrowband array processing applications when the array manifold is unknown or distorted. This paper introduces a new source separation technique exploiting the time coherence of the source signals. In contrast with other previously reported techniques, the proposed approach relies only on stationary second-order statistics that are based on a joint diagonalization of a set of covariance matrices. Asymptotic performance analysis of this method is carried out; some numerical simulations are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method