A spatio-temporal fastICA algorithm for separating convolutive mixtures

Scott C. Douglas, Hiroshi Sawada, Shoji Makino

Abstract: The paper presents a spatio-temporal extension of the well-known fastICA algorithm of Hyva/spl uml/rinen and Oja that is applicable to both convolutive blind source separation and multichannel blind deconvolution tasks. Our time-domain algorithm combines multichannel spatio-temporal prewhitening via multi-stage least-squares linear prediction with a fixed-point iteration involving a new adaptive technique for imposing paraunitary constraints on the multichannel separation filter. Our technique also allows for efficient reconstruction of individual signals as observed in the sensor measurements for single-input, multiple-output (SIMO) BSS tasks. Analysis and simulations verify the utility of the proposed methods.