The problem of blind separation of signals in post nonlinear mixture is addressed in this paper. The post nonlinear mixture is formed by a component wise nonlinear distortion after the linear mixture. Hence a nonlin...The problem of blind separation of signals in post nonlinear mixture is addressed in this paper. The post nonlinear mixture is formed by a component wise nonlinear distortion after the linear mixture. Hence a nonlinear adjusting part placed in front of the linear separation structure is needed to compensate for the distortion in separating such signals. The learning rules for the post nonlinear separation structure are derived by a maximum likelihood approach. An algorithm for blind separation of post nonlinearly mixed sub and super Gaussian signals is proposed based on some previous work. Multilayer perceptrons are used in this algorithm to model the nonlinear part of the separation structure. The algorithm switches between sub and super Gaussian probability models during learning according to a stability condition and operates in a block adaptive manner. The effectiveness of the algorithm is verified by experiments on simulated and real world signals.展开更多
Intercepted signal blind separation is a research topic with high importance for both military and civilian communication systems. A blind separation method for space-time block code （STBC） systems is proposed by us...Intercepted signal blind separation is a research topic with high importance for both military and civilian communication systems. A blind separation method for space-time block code （STBC） systems is proposed by using the ordinary independent component analysis （ICA）. This method cannot work when specific complex modulations are employed since the assumption of mutual independence cannot be satisfied. The analysis shows that source signals, which are group-wise independent and use multi-dimensional ICA （MICA） instead of ordinary ICA, can be applied in this case. Utilizing the block-diagonal structure of the cumulant matrices, the JADE algorithm is generalized to the multidimensional case to separate the received data into mutually independent groups. Compared with ordinary ICA algorithms, the proposed method does not introduce additional ambiguities. Simulations show that the proposed method overcomes the drawback and achieves a better performance without utilizing coding information than channel estimation based algorithms.展开更多
This paper deals with the blind separation of nonstation-ary sources and direction-of-arrival （DOA） estimation in the under-determined case, when there are more sources than sensors. We assume the sources to be time...This paper deals with the blind separation of nonstation-ary sources and direction-of-arrival （DOA） estimation in the under-determined case, when there are more sources than sensors. We assume the sources to be time-frequency （TF） disjoint to a certain extent. In particular, the number of sources presented at any TF neighborhood is strictly less than that of sensors. We can identify the real number of active sources and achieve separation in any TF neighborhood by the sparse representation method. Compared with the subspace-based algorithm under the same sparseness assumption, which suffers from the extra noise effect since it can-not estimate the true number of active sources, the proposed algorithm can estimate the number of active sources and their cor-responding TF values in any TF neighborhood simultaneously. An-other contribution of this paper is a new estimation procedure for the DOA of sources in the underdetermined case, which combines the TF sparseness of sources and the clustering technique. Sim-ulation results demonstrate the validity and high performance of the proposed algorithm in both blind source separation （BSS） and DOA estimation.展开更多
Speech signals in frequency domain were separated based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and independent component analysis (ICA). First, mixed speech signals were decomposed into different frequency domains by DWT...Speech signals in frequency domain were separated based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and independent component analysis (ICA). First, mixed speech signals were decomposed into different frequency domains by DWT and the subbands of speech signals were separated using ICA in each wavelet domain; then, the permutation and scaling problems of frequency domain blind source separation (BSS) were solved by utilizing the correlation between adjacent bins in speech signals; at last, source signals were reconstructed from single branches. Experiments were carried out with 2 sources and 6 microphones using speech signals at sampling rate of 40 kHz. The microphones were aligned with 2 sources in front of them, on the left and right. The separation of one male and one female speeches lasted 2.5 s. It is proved that the new method is better than single ICA method and the signal to noise ratio is improved by 1 dB approximately.展开更多
In underdetermined blind source separation, more sources are to be estimated from less observed mixtures without knowing source signals and the mixing matrix. This paper presents a robust clustering algorithm for unde...In underdetermined blind source separation, more sources are to be estimated from less observed mixtures without knowing source signals and the mixing matrix. This paper presents a robust clustering algorithm for underdetermined blind separation of sparse sources with unknown number of sources in the presence of noise. It uses the robust competitive agglomeration （RCA） algorithm to estimate the source number and the mixing matrix, and the source signals then are recovered by using the interior point linear programming. Simulation results show good performance of the proposed algorithm for underdetermined blind sources separation （UBSS）.展开更多
In LEO satellite communication networks,the number of satellites has increased sharply, the relative velocity of satellites is very fast, then electronic signal aliasing occurs from time to time. Those aliasing signal...In LEO satellite communication networks,the number of satellites has increased sharply, the relative velocity of satellites is very fast, then electronic signal aliasing occurs from time to time. Those aliasing signals make the receiving ability of the signal receiver worse, the signal processing ability weaker,and the anti-interference ability of the communication system lower. Aiming at the above problems, to save communication resources and improve communication efficiency, and considering the irregularity of interference signals, the underdetermined blind separation technology can effectively deal with the problem of interference sensing and signal reconstruction in this scenario. In order to improve the stability of source signal separation and the security of information transmission, a greedy optimization algorithm can be executed. At the same time, to improve network information transmission efficiency and prevent algorithms from getting trapped in local optima, delete low-energy points during each iteration process. Ultimately, simulation experiments validate that the algorithm presented in this paper enhances both the transmission efficiency of the network transmission system and the security of the communication system, achieving the process of interference sensing and signal reconstruction in the LEO satellite communication system.展开更多
A novel single-channel blind separation algorithm for permuted motion blurred images is proposed by using blind restoration in this paper. Both the motion direction and the length of the point spread function （PSF） ...A novel single-channel blind separation algorithm for permuted motion blurred images is proposed by using blind restoration in this paper. Both the motion direction and the length of the point spread function （PSF） are estimated by Radon transformation and extrema a detection. Using the estimated blur parameters, the permuted image is restored by performing the L-R blind restoration method. The permutation mixing matrices can be accurately estimated by classifying the ringing effect in the restored image, thereby the source images can be separated. Simulation results show a better separation efficiency for the permuted motion blurred image with various permutation operations. The proposed algorithm indicates a better performance on the robustness against Gaussian noise and lossy JPEG compression.展开更多
Due to the complexity and faintness of the detection wave patterns obtained by aircoupled transducers,if it is possible to effectively separate the various modes and obtain nondispersive signals for more accurate dete...Due to the complexity and faintness of the detection wave patterns obtained by aircoupled transducers,if it is possible to effectively separate the various modes and obtain nondispersive signals for more accurate detection and positioning,it will help to improve the accuracy and reliability of air-coupled ultrasonic Lamb wave detection,providing better technical support for the application and development of related fields.Because of the increased complexity of aircoupled signals,there is no definite theoretical formula to describe the mode changes of aircoupled signals,so the method based on blind separation has unique value.To address these challenges,the paper proposes a single-channel blind source separation(SCBSS)method.The effectiveness of this method is evaluated through simulations and experiments,demonstrating favorable separation results and efficient computational speed.This work first conducts an in-depth analysis of the signal characteristics of air-coupled ultrasonic non-destructive testing,and simulates the ultrasonic excitation conditions of air-coupled sensors through finite element software.The study of modal changes and multipath effects caused by the variation of the incidence angle of the ACT signal is carried out,and the situation of the Lamb wave signal excited by ACT at the receiving end is analyzed.By combining ACT with PZT signals,the ultrasonic signals of air-coupled Lamb waves are compared and studied,and their modal purification is carried out.展开更多
To improve the deteriorated capacity gain and source recovery performance due to channel mismatch problem,this paper reports a research about blind separation method against channel mismatch in multiple-input multiple...To improve the deteriorated capacity gain and source recovery performance due to channel mismatch problem,this paper reports a research about blind separation method against channel mismatch in multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) systems.The channel mismatch problem can be described as a channel with bounded fluctuant errors due to channel distortion or channel estimation errors.The problem of blind signal separation/extraction with channel mismatch is formulated as a cost function of blind source separation(BSS) subject to the second-order cone constraint,which can be called as second-order cone programing optimization problem.Then the resulting cost function is solved by approximate negentropy maximization using quasi-Newton iterative methods for blind separation/extraction source signals.Theoretical analysis demonstrates that the proposed algorithm has low computational complexity and improved performance advantages.Simulation results verify that the capacity gain and bit error rate(BER) performance of the proposed blind separation method is superior to those of the existing methods in MIMO systems with channel mismatch problem.展开更多
In this paper,a Maximum Likelihood(ML) approach,implemented by Expectation-Maximization(EM) algorithm,is proposed to blind separation of convolutively mixed discrete sources.In order to carry out the expectation proce...In this paper,a Maximum Likelihood(ML) approach,implemented by Expectation-Maximization(EM) algorithm,is proposed to blind separation of convolutively mixed discrete sources.In order to carry out the expectation procedure of the EM algorithm with a less computational load,the algorithm named Iterative Maximum Likelihood algorithm(IML) is proposed to calculate the likelihood and recover the source signals.An important feature of the ML approach is that it has robust performance in noise environments by treating the covariance matrix of the additive Gaussian noise as a parameter.Another striking feature of the ML approach is that it is possible to separate more sources than sensors by exploiting the finite alphabet property of the sources.Simulation results show that the proposed ML approach works well either in determined mixtures or underdetermined mixtures.Furthermore,the performance of the proposed ML algorithm is close to the performance with perfect knowledge of the channel filters.展开更多
This paper addresses the problem of Blind Source Separation (BSS) and presents a new BSS algorithm with a Signal-Adaptive Activation (SAA) function (SAA-BSS). By taking the sum of absolute values of the normalized kur...This paper addresses the problem of Blind Source Separation (BSS) and presents a new BSS algorithm with a Signal-Adaptive Activation (SAA) function (SAA-BSS). By taking the sum of absolute values of the normalized kurtoses as a contrast function, the obtained signal-adaptive activation function automatically satisfies the local stability and robustness conditions. The SAA-BSS exploits the natural gradient learning on the Stiefel manifold, and it is an equivariant algorithm with a moderate computational load. Computer simulations show that the SAA-BSS can perform blind separation of mixed sub-Gaussian and super-Gaussian signals and it works more efficiently than the existing algorithms in convergence speed and robustness against outliers.展开更多
Most of the existing algorithms for blind sources separation have a limitation that sources are statistically independent. However, in many practical applications, the source signals are non- negative and mutual stati...Most of the existing algorithms for blind sources separation have a limitation that sources are statistically independent. However, in many practical applications, the source signals are non- negative and mutual statistically dependent signals. When the observations are nonnegative linear combinations of nonnegative sources, the correlation coefficients of the observations are larger than these of source signals. In this letter, a novel Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) algorithm with least correlated component constraints to blind separation of convolutive mixed sources is proposed. The algorithm relaxes the source independence assumption and has low-complexity algebraic com- putations. Simulation results on blind source separation including real face image data indicate that the sources can be successfully recovered with the algorithm.展开更多
The proposed Blind Source Separation method(BSS),based on sparse representations,fuses time-frequency analysis and the clustering approach to separate underdetermined speech mixtures in the anechoic case regardless of...The proposed Blind Source Separation method(BSS),based on sparse representations,fuses time-frequency analysis and the clustering approach to separate underdetermined speech mixtures in the anechoic case regardless of the number of sources.The method remedies the insufficiency of the Degenerate Unmixing Estimation Technique(DUET) which assumes the number of sources a priori.In the proposed algorithm,the Short-Time Fourier Transform(STFT) is used to obtain the sparse rep-resentations,a clustering method called Unsupervised Robust C-Prototypes(URCP) which can ac-curately identify multiple clusters regardless of the number of them is adopted to replace the histo-gram-based technique in DUET,and the binary time-frequency masks are constructed to separate the mixtures.Experimental results indicate that the proposed method results in a substantial increase in the average Signal-to-Interference Ratio(SIR),and maintains good speech quality in the separation results.展开更多
Jamming suppression is traditionally achieved through the use of spatial filters based on array signal processing theory.In order to achieve better jamming suppression performance,many studies have applied blind sourc...Jamming suppression is traditionally achieved through the use of spatial filters based on array signal processing theory.In order to achieve better jamming suppression performance,many studies have applied blind source separation(BSS)to jamming suppression.BSS can achieve the separation and extraction of the individual source signals from the mixed signal received by the array.This paper proposes a perspective to recognize BSS as spatial band-pass filters(SBPFs)for jamming suppression applications.The theoretical derivation indicates that the processing of mixed signals by BSS can be perceived as the application of a set of SBPFs that gate the source signals at various angles.Simulations are performed using radar jamming suppression as an example.The simulation results suggest that BSS and SBPFs produce approximately the same effects.Simulation results are consistent with theoretical derivation results.展开更多
A new method to perform blind separation of chaotic signals is articulated in this paper, which takes advantage of the underlying features in the phase space for identifying various chaotic sources. Without incorporat...A new method to perform blind separation of chaotic signals is articulated in this paper, which takes advantage of the underlying features in the phase space for identifying various chaotic sources. Without incorporating any prior information about the source equations, the proposed algorithm can not only separate the mixed signals in just a few iterations, but also outperforms the fast independent component analysis （FastlCA） method when noise contamination is considerable.展开更多
In order to decrease the probability of missing some data points or noises being added in the inverse truncated mixing matrix （ITMM） algorithm, a two-stage frequency- domain method is proposed for blind source separ...In order to decrease the probability of missing some data points or noises being added in the inverse truncated mixing matrix （ITMM） algorithm, a two-stage frequency- domain method is proposed for blind source separation of underdetermined instantaneous mixtures. The separation process is decomposed into two steps of ITMM and matrix completion in the view that there are many soft-sparse （not very sparse） sources. First, the mixing matrix is estimated and the sources are recovered by the traditional ITMM algorithm in the frequency domain. Then, in order to retrieve the missing data and remove noises, the matrix completion technique is applied to each preliminary estimated source by the traditional ITMM algorithm in the frequency domain. Simulations show that, compared with the traditional ITMM algorithms, the proposed two-stage algorithm has better separation performances. In addition, the time consumption problem is considered. The proposed algorithm outperforms the traditional ITMM algorithm at a cost of no more than one- fourth extra time consumption.展开更多
This letter proposes two algorithms: a novel Quantum Genetic Algorithm (QGA)based on the improvement of Han's Genetic Quantum Algorithm (GQA) and a new Blind Source Separation (BSS) method based on QGA and Indepen...This letter proposes two algorithms: a novel Quantum Genetic Algorithm (QGA)based on the improvement of Han's Genetic Quantum Algorithm (GQA) and a new Blind Source Separation (BSS) method based on QGA and Independent Component Analysis (ICA). The simulation result shows that the efficiency of the new BSS method is obviously higher than that of the Conventional Genetic Algorithm (CGA).展开更多
Blind separation of sparse sources （BSSS） is discussed. The BSSS method based on the conventional K-means clustering is very fast and is also easy to implement. However, the accuracy of this method is generally not ...Blind separation of sparse sources （BSSS） is discussed. The BSSS method based on the conventional K-means clustering is very fast and is also easy to implement. However, the accuracy of this method is generally not satisfactory. The contribution of the vector x（t） with different modules is theoretically proved to be unequal, and a weighted K-means clustering method is proposed on this grounds. The proposed algorithm is not only as fast as the conventional K-means clustering method, but can also achieve considerably accurate results, which is demonstrated by numerical experiments.展开更多
The concepts, principles and usages of principal component analysis （PCA） and independent component analysis （ICA） are interpreted. Then the algorithm and methodology of ICA-based blind source separation （BSS）, ...The concepts, principles and usages of principal component analysis （PCA） and independent component analysis （ICA） are interpreted. Then the algorithm and methodology of ICA-based blind source separation （BSS）, in which the pre-whitened based on PCA for observed signals is used, are researched. Aiming at the mixture signals, whose frequency components are overlapped by each other, a simulation of BSS to separate this type of mixture signals by using theory and approach of BSS has been done. The result shows that the BSS has some advantages what the traditional methodology of frequency analysis has not.展开更多
The discrimination of neutrons from gamma rays in a mixed radiation field is crucial in neutron detection tasks.Several approaches have been proposed to enhance the performance and accuracy of neutron-gamma discrimina...The discrimination of neutrons from gamma rays in a mixed radiation field is crucial in neutron detection tasks.Several approaches have been proposed to enhance the performance and accuracy of neutron-gamma discrimination.However,their performances are often associated with certain factors,such as experimental requirements and resulting mixed signals.The main purpose of this study is to achieve fast and accurate neutron-gamma discrimination without a priori information on the signal to be analyzed,as well as the experimental setup.Here,a novel method is proposed based on two concepts.The first method exploits the power of nonnegative tensor factorization(NTF)as a blind source separation method to extract the original components from the mixture signals recorded at the output of the stilbene scintillator detector.The second one is based on the principles of support vector machine(SVM)to identify and discriminate these components.In addition to these two main methods,we adopted the Mexican-hat function as a continuous wavelet transform to characterize the components extracted using the NTF model.The resulting scalograms are processed as colored images,which are segmented into two distinct classes using the Otsu thresholding method to extract the features of interest of the neutrons and gamma-ray components from the background noise.We subsequently used principal component analysis to select the most significant of these features wich are used in the training and testing datasets for SVM.Bias-variance analysis is used to optimize the SVM model by finding the optimal level of model complexity with the highest possible generalization performance.In this framework,the obtained results have verified a suitable bias–variance trade-off value.We achieved an operational SVM prediction model for neutron-gamma classification with a high true-positive rate.The accuracy and performance of the SVM based on the NTF was evaluated and validated by comparing it to the charge comparison method via figure of merit.The results indicate that the proposed approach has a superior discrimination quality(figure of merit of 2.20).展开更多
文摘The problem of blind separation of signals in post nonlinear mixture is addressed in this paper. The post nonlinear mixture is formed by a component wise nonlinear distortion after the linear mixture. Hence a nonlinear adjusting part placed in front of the linear separation structure is needed to compensate for the distortion in separating such signals. The learning rules for the post nonlinear separation structure are derived by a maximum likelihood approach. An algorithm for blind separation of post nonlinearly mixed sub and super Gaussian signals is proposed based on some previous work. Multilayer perceptrons are used in this algorithm to model the nonlinear part of the separation structure. The algorithm switches between sub and super Gaussian probability models during learning according to a stability condition and operates in a block adaptive manner. The effectiveness of the algorithm is verified by experiments on simulated and real world signals.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61201282)
文摘Intercepted signal blind separation is a research topic with high importance for both military and civilian communication systems. A blind separation method for space-time block code （STBC） systems is proposed by using the ordinary independent component analysis （ICA）. This method cannot work when specific complex modulations are employed since the assumption of mutual independence cannot be satisfied. The analysis shows that source signals, which are group-wise independent and use multi-dimensional ICA （MICA） instead of ordinary ICA, can be applied in this case. Utilizing the block-diagonal structure of the cumulant matrices, the JADE algorithm is generalized to the multidimensional case to separate the received data into mutually independent groups. Compared with ordinary ICA algorithms, the proposed method does not introduce additional ambiguities. Simulations show that the proposed method overcomes the drawback and achieves a better performance without utilizing coding information than channel estimation based algorithms.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61072120)
文摘This paper deals with the blind separation of nonstation-ary sources and direction-of-arrival （DOA） estimation in the under-determined case, when there are more sources than sensors. We assume the sources to be time-frequency （TF） disjoint to a certain extent. In particular, the number of sources presented at any TF neighborhood is strictly less than that of sensors. We can identify the real number of active sources and achieve separation in any TF neighborhood by the sparse representation method. Compared with the subspace-based algorithm under the same sparseness assumption, which suffers from the extra noise effect since it can-not estimate the true number of active sources, the proposed algorithm can estimate the number of active sources and their cor-responding TF values in any TF neighborhood simultaneously. An-other contribution of this paper is a new estimation procedure for the DOA of sources in the underdetermined case, which combines the TF sparseness of sources and the clustering technique. Sim-ulation results demonstrate the validity and high performance of the proposed algorithm in both blind source separation （BSS） and DOA estimation.
基金Supported by Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Commission (No.09JCYBJC02200)
文摘Speech signals in frequency domain were separated based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and independent component analysis (ICA). First, mixed speech signals were decomposed into different frequency domains by DWT and the subbands of speech signals were separated using ICA in each wavelet domain; then, the permutation and scaling problems of frequency domain blind source separation (BSS) were solved by utilizing the correlation between adjacent bins in speech signals; at last, source signals were reconstructed from single branches. Experiments were carried out with 2 sources and 6 microphones using speech signals at sampling rate of 40 kHz. The microphones were aligned with 2 sources in front of them, on the left and right. The separation of one male and one female speeches lasted 2.5 s. It is proved that the new method is better than single ICA method and the signal to noise ratio is improved by 1 dB approximately.
基金the Research Foundation for Doctoral Programs of Higher Education of China (Grant No.20060280003)the Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (Grant No.T0102)
文摘In underdetermined blind source separation, more sources are to be estimated from less observed mixtures without knowing source signals and the mixing matrix. This paper presents a robust clustering algorithm for underdetermined blind separation of sparse sources with unknown number of sources in the presence of noise. It uses the robust competitive agglomeration （RCA） algorithm to estimate the source number and the mixing matrix, and the source signals then are recovered by using the interior point linear programming. Simulation results show good performance of the proposed algorithm for underdetermined blind sources separation （UBSS）.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (62171390)Central Universities of Southwest Minzu University (ZYN2022032,2023NYXXS034)the State Scholarship Fund of the China Scholarship Council (NO.202008510081)。
文摘In LEO satellite communication networks,the number of satellites has increased sharply, the relative velocity of satellites is very fast, then electronic signal aliasing occurs from time to time. Those aliasing signals make the receiving ability of the signal receiver worse, the signal processing ability weaker,and the anti-interference ability of the communication system lower. Aiming at the above problems, to save communication resources and improve communication efficiency, and considering the irregularity of interference signals, the underdetermined blind separation technology can effectively deal with the problem of interference sensing and signal reconstruction in this scenario. In order to improve the stability of source signal separation and the security of information transmission, a greedy optimization algorithm can be executed. At the same time, to improve network information transmission efficiency and prevent algorithms from getting trapped in local optima, delete low-energy points during each iteration process. Ultimately, simulation experiments validate that the algorithm presented in this paper enhances both the transmission efficiency of the network transmission system and the security of the communication system, achieving the process of interference sensing and signal reconstruction in the LEO satellite communication system.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.60872114)the Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (Grant No.S30108)the Graduate Student Innovation Foundation of Shanghai University (Grant No.SHUCX101086)
文摘A novel single-channel blind separation algorithm for permuted motion blurred images is proposed by using blind restoration in this paper. Both the motion direction and the length of the point spread function （PSF） are estimated by Radon transformation and extrema a detection. Using the estimated blur parameters, the permuted image is restored by performing the L-R blind restoration method. The permutation mixing matrices can be accurately estimated by classifying the ringing effect in the restored image, thereby the source images can be separated. Simulation results show a better separation efficiency for the permuted motion blurred image with various permutation operations. The proposed algorithm indicates a better performance on the robustness against Gaussian noise and lossy JPEG compression.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.92360306,52222504 and 52241502).
文摘Due to the complexity and faintness of the detection wave patterns obtained by aircoupled transducers,if it is possible to effectively separate the various modes and obtain nondispersive signals for more accurate detection and positioning,it will help to improve the accuracy and reliability of air-coupled ultrasonic Lamb wave detection,providing better technical support for the application and development of related fields.Because of the increased complexity of aircoupled signals,there is no definite theoretical formula to describe the mode changes of aircoupled signals,so the method based on blind separation has unique value.To address these challenges,the paper proposes a single-channel blind source separation(SCBSS)method.The effectiveness of this method is evaluated through simulations and experiments,demonstrating favorable separation results and efficient computational speed.This work first conducts an in-depth analysis of the signal characteristics of air-coupled ultrasonic non-destructive testing,and simulates the ultrasonic excitation conditions of air-coupled sensors through finite element software.The study of modal changes and multipath effects caused by the variation of the incidence angle of the ACT signal is carried out,and the situation of the Lamb wave signal excited by ACT at the receiving end is analyzed.By combining ACT with PZT signals,the ultrasonic signals of air-coupled Lamb waves are compared and studied,and their modal purification is carried out.
基金supported by Sichuan Youth Science and Technology Innovation Research Team Project(No.2015TD0022)the Talents Project of Sichuan University of Science and Engineering(No.2017RCL11 and No.2017RCL10)the first batch of science and technology plan key R&D project of Sichuan province(No.2017GZ0068)
文摘To improve the deteriorated capacity gain and source recovery performance due to channel mismatch problem,this paper reports a research about blind separation method against channel mismatch in multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) systems.The channel mismatch problem can be described as a channel with bounded fluctuant errors due to channel distortion or channel estimation errors.The problem of blind signal separation/extraction with channel mismatch is formulated as a cost function of blind source separation(BSS) subject to the second-order cone constraint,which can be called as second-order cone programing optimization problem.Then the resulting cost function is solved by approximate negentropy maximization using quasi-Newton iterative methods for blind separation/extraction source signals.Theoretical analysis demonstrates that the proposed algorithm has low computational complexity and improved performance advantages.Simulation results verify that the capacity gain and bit error rate(BER) performance of the proposed blind separation method is superior to those of the existing methods in MIMO systems with channel mismatch problem.
基金supportedin part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61001106the National Key Basic Research Program of China(973 Program) under Grant No. 2009CB320400
文摘In this paper,a Maximum Likelihood(ML) approach,implemented by Expectation-Maximization(EM) algorithm,is proposed to blind separation of convolutively mixed discrete sources.In order to carry out the expectation procedure of the EM algorithm with a less computational load,the algorithm named Iterative Maximum Likelihood algorithm(IML) is proposed to calculate the likelihood and recover the source signals.An important feature of the ML approach is that it has robust performance in noise environments by treating the covariance matrix of the additive Gaussian noise as a parameter.Another striking feature of the ML approach is that it is possible to separate more sources than sensors by exploiting the finite alphabet property of the sources.Simulation results show that the proposed ML approach works well either in determined mixtures or underdetermined mixtures.Furthermore,the performance of the proposed ML algorithm is close to the performance with perfect knowledge of the channel filters.
基金Supported by the major program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60496311)the Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No.2004035061)the Foundation of Intel China Research Center.
文摘This paper addresses the problem of Blind Source Separation (BSS) and presents a new BSS algorithm with a Signal-Adaptive Activation (SAA) function (SAA-BSS). By taking the sum of absolute values of the normalized kurtoses as a contrast function, the obtained signal-adaptive activation function automatically satisfies the local stability and robustness conditions. The SAA-BSS exploits the natural gradient learning on the Stiefel manifold, and it is an equivariant algorithm with a moderate computational load. Computer simulations show that the SAA-BSS can perform blind separation of mixed sub-Gaussian and super-Gaussian signals and it works more efficiently than the existing algorithms in convergence speed and robustness against outliers.
基金Supported by the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (No.20060280003)Shanghai Leading Academic Dis-cipline Project (T0102)
文摘Most of the existing algorithms for blind sources separation have a limitation that sources are statistically independent. However, in many practical applications, the source signals are non- negative and mutual statistically dependent signals. When the observations are nonnegative linear combinations of nonnegative sources, the correlation coefficients of the observations are larger than these of source signals. In this letter, a novel Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) algorithm with least correlated component constraints to blind separation of convolutive mixed sources is proposed. The algorithm relaxes the source independence assumption and has low-complexity algebraic com- putations. Simulation results on blind source separation including real face image data indicate that the sources can be successfully recovered with the algorithm.
文摘The proposed Blind Source Separation method(BSS),based on sparse representations,fuses time-frequency analysis and the clustering approach to separate underdetermined speech mixtures in the anechoic case regardless of the number of sources.The method remedies the insufficiency of the Degenerate Unmixing Estimation Technique(DUET) which assumes the number of sources a priori.In the proposed algorithm,the Short-Time Fourier Transform(STFT) is used to obtain the sparse rep-resentations,a clustering method called Unsupervised Robust C-Prototypes(URCP) which can ac-curately identify multiple clusters regardless of the number of them is adopted to replace the histo-gram-based technique in DUET,and the binary time-frequency masks are constructed to separate the mixtures.Experimental results indicate that the proposed method results in a substantial increase in the average Signal-to-Interference Ratio(SIR),and maintains good speech quality in the separation results.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(6237104662201048)the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing,China(cstc2020jcyj-msxmX0260).
文摘Jamming suppression is traditionally achieved through the use of spatial filters based on array signal processing theory.In order to achieve better jamming suppression performance,many studies have applied blind source separation(BSS)to jamming suppression.BSS can achieve the separation and extraction of the individual source signals from the mixed signal received by the array.This paper proposes a perspective to recognize BSS as spatial band-pass filters(SBPFs)for jamming suppression applications.The theoretical derivation indicates that the processing of mixed signals by BSS can be perceived as the application of a set of SBPFs that gate the source signals at various angles.Simulations are performed using radar jamming suppression as an example.The simulation results suggest that BSS and SBPFs produce approximately the same effects.Simulation results are consistent with theoretical derivation results.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.60872123)the Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation and the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province,China(Grant No.U0835001)+1 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(Grant No.2012ZM0025)the South China University of Technology,China,and the Fund for Higher-Level Talents in Guangdong Province,China(Grant No.N9101070)
文摘A new method to perform blind separation of chaotic signals is articulated in this paper, which takes advantage of the underlying features in the phase space for identifying various chaotic sources. Without incorporating any prior information about the source equations, the proposed algorithm can not only separate the mixed signals in just a few iterations, but also outperforms the fast independent component analysis （FastlCA） method when noise contamination is considerable.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60872074)
文摘In order to decrease the probability of missing some data points or noises being added in the inverse truncated mixing matrix （ITMM） algorithm, a two-stage frequency- domain method is proposed for blind source separation of underdetermined instantaneous mixtures. The separation process is decomposed into two steps of ITMM and matrix completion in the view that there are many soft-sparse （not very sparse） sources. First, the mixing matrix is estimated and the sources are recovered by the traditional ITMM algorithm in the frequency domain. Then, in order to retrieve the missing data and remove noises, the matrix completion technique is applied to each preliminary estimated source by the traditional ITMM algorithm in the frequency domain. Simulations show that, compared with the traditional ITMM algorithms, the proposed two-stage algorithm has better separation performances. In addition, the time consumption problem is considered. The proposed algorithm outperforms the traditional ITMM algorithm at a cost of no more than one- fourth extra time consumption.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60171029)
文摘This letter proposes two algorithms: a novel Quantum Genetic Algorithm (QGA)based on the improvement of Han's Genetic Quantum Algorithm (GQA) and a new Blind Source Separation (BSS) method based on QGA and Independent Component Analysis (ICA). The simulation result shows that the efficiency of the new BSS method is obviously higher than that of the Conventional Genetic Algorithm (CGA).
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60672061)
文摘Blind separation of sparse sources （BSSS） is discussed. The BSSS method based on the conventional K-means clustering is very fast and is also easy to implement. However, the accuracy of this method is generally not satisfactory. The contribution of the vector x（t） with different modules is theoretically proved to be unequal, and a weighted K-means clustering method is proposed on this grounds. The proposed algorithm is not only as fast as the conventional K-means clustering method, but can also achieve considerably accurate results, which is demonstrated by numerical experiments.
基金This project is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.50405033).
文摘The concepts, principles and usages of principal component analysis （PCA） and independent component analysis （ICA） are interpreted. Then the algorithm and methodology of ICA-based blind source separation （BSS）, in which the pre-whitened based on PCA for observed signals is used, are researched. Aiming at the mixture signals, whose frequency components are overlapped by each other, a simulation of BSS to separate this type of mixture signals by using theory and approach of BSS has been done. The result shows that the BSS has some advantages what the traditional methodology of frequency analysis has not.
基金L’Ore´al-UNESCO for the Women in Science Maghreb Program Grant Agreement No.4500410340.
文摘The discrimination of neutrons from gamma rays in a mixed radiation field is crucial in neutron detection tasks.Several approaches have been proposed to enhance the performance and accuracy of neutron-gamma discrimination.However,their performances are often associated with certain factors,such as experimental requirements and resulting mixed signals.The main purpose of this study is to achieve fast and accurate neutron-gamma discrimination without a priori information on the signal to be analyzed,as well as the experimental setup.Here,a novel method is proposed based on two concepts.The first method exploits the power of nonnegative tensor factorization(NTF)as a blind source separation method to extract the original components from the mixture signals recorded at the output of the stilbene scintillator detector.The second one is based on the principles of support vector machine(SVM)to identify and discriminate these components.In addition to these two main methods,we adopted the Mexican-hat function as a continuous wavelet transform to characterize the components extracted using the NTF model.The resulting scalograms are processed as colored images,which are segmented into two distinct classes using the Otsu thresholding method to extract the features of interest of the neutrons and gamma-ray components from the background noise.We subsequently used principal component analysis to select the most significant of these features wich are used in the training and testing datasets for SVM.Bias-variance analysis is used to optimize the SVM model by finding the optimal level of model complexity with the highest possible generalization performance.In this framework,the obtained results have verified a suitable bias–variance trade-off value.We achieved an operational SVM prediction model for neutron-gamma classification with a high true-positive rate.The accuracy and performance of the SVM based on the NTF was evaluated and validated by comparing it to the charge comparison method via figure of merit.The results indicate that the proposed approach has a superior discrimination quality(figure of merit of 2.20).
