An Extension to the Natural Gradient Algorithm for Robust Independent Component Analysis in the Presence of Outliers

Muhammad TUFAIL
Masahide ABE
Masayuki KAWAMATA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E89-A    No.9    pp.2429-2432
Publication Date: 2006/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.9.2429
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Digital Signal Processing
Keyword: 
Independent Component Analysis,  robust higher order statistics,  outliers,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, we propose to employ an extension to the natural gradient algorithm for robust Independent Component Analysis against outliers. The standard natural gradient algorithm does not exhibit this property since it employs nonrobust sample estimates for computing higher order moments. In order to overcome this drawback, we propose to use robust alternatives to higher order moments, which are comparatively less sensitive to outliers in the observed data. Some computer simulations are presented to show that the proposed method, as compared to the standard natural gradient algorithm, gives better performance in the presence of outlying data.

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