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An important problem encountered by both natural and engineered signal processing systems is blind source separation. In many instances of the problem, the sources are bounded by their nature and known to be so, even though the particular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Alper T. Erdogan , Cengiz Pehlevan

Blind source separation (BSS) is a key technique in array processing and data analysis, aiming to recover unknown sources from observed mixtures without knowledge of the mixing matrix. Classical independent component analysis (ICA) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhongxuan Li

Blind source separation (BSS) is addressed, using a novel data-driven approach, based on a well-established probabilistic model. The proposed method is specifically designed for separation of multichannel audio mixtures. The algorithm…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Bracha Laufer-Goldshtein , Ronen Talmon , Sharon Gannot

The expansion of telecommunications incurs increasingly severe crosstalk and interference, and a physical layer cognitive method, called blind source separation (BSS), can effectively address these issues. BSS requires minimal prior…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Weipeng Zhang , Alexander Tait , Chaoran Huang , Thomas Ferreira de Lima , Simon Bilodeau , Eric Blow , Aashu Jha , Bhavin J. Shastri , Paul Prucnal

Blind Source Separation is a widely used technique to analyze multichannel data. In many real-world applications, its results can be significantly hampered by the presence of unknown outliers. In this paper, a novel algorithm coined rGMCA…

Applications · Statistics 2016-04-26 Cecile Chenot , Jerome Bobin , Jeremy Rapin

Given a time series of multicomponent measurements of an evolving stimulus, nonlinear blind source separation (BSS) seeks to find a "source" time series, comprised of statistically independent combinations of the measured components. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-11-11 David N. Levin

This paper concerns underdetermined linear instantaneous and convolutive blind source separation (BSS), i.e., the case when the number of observed mixed signals is lower than the number of sources.We propose partial BSS methods, which…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-12-18 J. Thomas , Y. Deville , Shahram Hosseini

Recently Lin et al. proposed a method of using the underdetermined BSS (blind source separation) problem to realize image and speech encryption. In this paper, we give a cryptanalysis of this BSS-based encryption and point out that it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-06-23 Shujun Li , Chengqing Li , Kwok-Tung Lo , Guanrong Chen

Multichannel audio blind source separation (BSS) in the determined situation (the number of microphones is equal to that of the sources), or determined BSS, is performed by multichannel linear filtering in the time-frequency domain to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Kohei Yatabe

Blind source separation (BSS) is a signal processing tool, which is widely used in various fields. Examples include biomedical signal separation, brain imaging and economic time series applications. In BSS, one assumes that the observed $p$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-04 Jari Miettinen , Katrin Illner , Klaus Nordhausen , Hannu Oja , Sara Taskinen , Fabian J. Theis

An important preprocessing step in most data analysis pipelines aims to extract a small set of sources that explain most of the data. Currently used algorithms for blind source separation (BSS), however, often fail to extract the desired…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-26 Alexander Böttcher , Wieland Brendel , Bernhard Englitz , Matthias Bethge

Blind signal separation (BSS) is an important and challenging signal processing task. Given an observed signal which is a superposition of a collection of unknown (hidden/latent) signals, BSS aims at recovering the separate, underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Truman Hickok , Sriram Nagaraj

Blind source separation (BSS) is a natural framework for studying how latent causes may be recovered from sensory mixtures, but deriving online and biologically plausible algorithms for structured (i.e., constrained to known domains) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Bariscan Bozkurt , Efe Ali Gorguner , Francesco Innocenti , Rafal Bogacz

We study the classical problem of recovering a multidimensional source signal from observations of nonlinear mixtures of this signal. We show that this recovery is possible (up to a permutation and monotone scaling of the source's original…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 Alexander Schell , Harald Oberhauser

We consider a blind identification problem in which we aim to recover a statistical model of a network without knowledge of the network's edges, but based solely on nodal observations of a certain process. More concretely, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Michael T. Schaub , Santiago Segarra , John N. Tsitsiklis

We propose a new blind source separation algorithm based on mixtures of alpha-stable distributions. Complex symmetric alpha-stable distributions have been recently showed to better model audio signals in the time-frequency domain than…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-13 Nicolas Keriven , Antoine Deleforge , Antoine Liutkus

Consider a time series of measurements of the state of an evolving system, x(t), where x has two or more components. This paper shows how to perform nonlinear blind source separation; i.e., how to determine if these signals are equal to…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-07 David N. Levin

The operation of a system, such as a vehicle, communication network or automatic process, heavily depends on the correct operation of its components. A Stochastic Binary System (SBS) mathematically models the behavior of on-off systems,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Héctor Cancela , Gustavo Guerberoff , Franco Robledo , Pablo Romero

We give under weak assumptions a complete combinatorial characterization of identifiability for linear mixtures of finite alphabet sources, with unknown mixing weights and unknown source signals, but known alphabet. This is based on a…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-09-01 Merle Behr , Axel Munk

This work is concerned with the problem of blind source separation and its applications to imaging. We first establish a theoretical result that we stated in our previous article on imaging in diffusive environments. This result is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Randy Bartels , Olivier Pinaud