Blind Partial Separation of Instantaneous Mixtures of Sources
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چکیده
We introduce a general criterion for blindly extracting a subset of sources in instantaneous mixtures. We derive the corresponding estimation equations and generalize them based on arbitrary nonlinear separating functions. A quasi-Newton algorithm for minimizing the criterion is presented, which reduces to the FastICA algorithm in the case when only one source is extracted. The asymptotic distribution of the estimator is obtained and a simulation example is provided.
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