Independent Slow Feature Analysis and Nonlinear Blind Source Separation

We present independent slow feature analysis as a new method for nonlinear blind source separation. It circumvents the indeterminacy of nonlinear independent component analysis by combining the objectives of statistical independence and temporal slowness. The principle of temporal slowness is adopted from slow feature analysis, an unsupervised method to extract slowly varying features from a given observed vectorial signal. The performance of the algorithm is demonstrated on nonlinearly mixed speech data.

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