A Bayesian approach to source separation

Details A Bayesian approach to source separation A Bayesian approach to source separation

2002-05-10

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0205032v1

ICA99 Proceedings, Aussois, France, Jan. 1999, pp. 283-8

Physics

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

6 pages

Scientific paper

The problem of source separation is by its very nature an inductive inference problem. There is not enough information to deduce the solution, so one must use any available information to infer the most probable solution. We demonstrate that source separation problems are well-suited for the Bayesian approach which provides a natural and logically consistent method by which one can incorporate prior knowledge to estimate the most probable solution given that knowledge. We derive the Bell-Sejnowski ICA algorithm from first principles, i.e. Bayes' Theorem and demonstrate how the Bayesian methodology makes explicit the underlying assumptions. We then further demonstrate the power of the Bayesian approach by deriving two separation algorithms that incorporate additional prior information. One algorithm separates signals that are known a priori to be decorrelated and the other utilizes information about the signal propagation through the medium from the sources to the detectors.

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