DocumentCode
352210
Title
A simple threshold nonlinearity for blind separation of sub-Gaussian signals
Author
Mathis, Heinz ; Joho, Marcel ; Moschytz, George S.
Author_Institution
Signal & Inf. Process. Lab., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
Volume
4
fYear
2000
fDate
2000
Firstpage
489
Abstract
A computationally simple nonlinearity in the form of a threshold device for the blind separation of sub-Gaussian signals is derived. Convergence is shown to be robust, fast, and comparable to that of more complex polynomial nonlinearities. Together with the known signum nonlinearity for super-Gaussian distributions, which basically is a threshold device with the threshold set to zero, the general threshold nonlinearity (with an appropriate threshold) can separate any non-Gaussian signals
Keywords
adaptive signal processing; convergence; pulse amplitude modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; M-PAM signals; M-QAM signals; blind separation; convergence; nonGaussian signals; signum nonlinearity; sub-Gaussian signals; threshold nonlinearity; Blind source separation; Ear; Entropy; Information processing; Laboratories; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mutual information; Polynomials; Separation processes; Signal processing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Circuits and Systems, 2000. Proceedings. ISCAS 2000 Geneva. The 2000 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Geneva
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5482-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISCAS.2000.858795
Filename
858795
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