Hierarchic Nonlinear PCA Algorithms for Neural Blind Source Separation

Blind separation of unknown sources from their mixtures is currently a timely research topic in statistical signal processing and unsupervised neural learning. We have recently shown that certain symmetric nonlinear PCA type neural algorithms can be successfully applied to this problem. In this paper, we extend our previous results. We show that several sequential either robust or nonlinear PCA type learning algorithms perform well in the separation problem, too, and may have advantages in certain situations. We also modify some of our algorithms so that they can be used for simultaneous separation of both sub-Gaussian and super-Gaussian sources.