A geometric approach to blind separation of nonnegative and dependent source signals

  • Authors:
  • Wady Naanaa;Jean-Marc Nuzillard

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Sciences, University of Monastir, 5000 Monastir, Tunisia;ICMR, CNRS UMR 7312, University of Reims, 51687 REIMS Cedex 2, France

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Blind source separation (BSS) consists in processing a set of observed mixed signals to separate them into a set of original components. Most of the current blind separation methods assumes that the source signals are ''as statistically independent as possible'' given the observed data. In many real-world situations, however, this hypothesis does not hold. In order to cope with such signals, a first geometric method was proposed that separates statistically dependent signals, provided that they are nonnegative and locally orthogonal. This paper presents a new geometric method for the separation of nonnegative source signals which relies on a working assumption that is weaker than local orthogonality. The separation problem is expressed as the identification of relevant facets of the data cone. After a rigorous proof of the proposed method, the details of the separation algorithm are given. Experiments on signals from various origins clearly show the efficiency of the new procedure.