Linear and nonlinear ICA based on mutual information: the MISEP method

  • Authors:
  • Luís B. Almeida

  • Affiliations:
  • INESC-ID, R. Alves Redol, 9, 1000-029 Lisboa, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing - Special issue on independent components analysis and beyond
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

MISEP is a method for linear and nonlinear ICA, that is able to handle a large variety of situations. It is an extension of the well known INFOMAX method, in two directions: (1) handling of nonlinear mixtures, and (2) learning the nonlinearities to be used at the outputs. The method can therefore separate linear and nonlinear mixtures of components with a wide range of statistical distributions. This paper presents the basis of the MISEP method, as well as experimental results obtained with it. New results show the applicability of the method to mixtures of up to 10 sources, and suggest that its performance scales relatively well with the dimensionality of the problem. The results also show that, although the nonlinear blind source separation problem is ill-posed, the use of regularization allows the problem to be solved when the mixture is not too strongly nonlinear.