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Presentation 2007-03-14 15:10
Markov and semi-Markov switching of source appearances for non-stationary independent component analysis
Junichiro Hirayama (NAIST/JSPS), Shin-ichi Maeda, Shin Ishii (NAIST)
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(in English) Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is currently the most popularly used approach to blind source separation (BSS), the problem of recovering unknown source signals when their mixtures are observed but the actual mixing process is unknown. Real-world signals often have such difficult non-stationarity that each source signal abruptly appears or disappears, which potentially degrades the performance of ordinary ICA especially in noisy situations. To address such non-stationary cases, we have proposed a non-stationary ICA method, called Switching ICA, based on a special type of hidden Markov model. In this article, we present new experimental comparison of our method to some existing methods, with a full treatment of paramter estimation including those for the parameters that have previously been fixed. In simulation experiments using artificial source signals, the proposed method exhibited performance superior to existing methods, especially in the presence of noise. We also propose a simple semi-Markov extension of the original Markov one, to avoid unrealistic assumption implied in the Markov model, that is, the probability of state duration decreases exponentially with its length. The semi-Markov model is demonstrated to be more effective for robust estimation of the source appearance.
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(in English) independent component analysis / blind source separation / hidden Markov model / hidden semi-Markov model / variational Bayes method / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 106, no. 588, NC2006-147, pp. 173-178, March 2007.
Paper # NC2006-147 
Date of Issue 2007-03-07 (NC) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685
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Committee NC  
Conference Date 2007-03-14 - 2007-03-16 
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Place (in English) Tamagawa University 
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Conference Code 2007-03-NC 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Markov and semi-Markov switching of source appearances for non-stationary independent component analysis 
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Keyword(1) independent component analysis  
Keyword(2) blind source separation  
Keyword(3) hidden Markov model  
Keyword(4) hidden semi-Markov model  
Keyword(5) variational Bayes method  
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1st Author's Name Junichiro Hirayama  
1st Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology/Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (NAIST/JSPS)
2nd Author's Name Shin-ichi Maeda  
2nd Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
3rd Author's Name Shin Ishii  
3rd Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
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Date Time 2007-03-14 15:10:00 
Presentation Time 20 minutes 
Registration for NC 
Paper # NC2006-147 
Volume (vol) vol.106 
Number (no) no.588 
Page pp.173-178 
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Date of Issue 2007-03-07 (NC) 


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