ISCA Archive NOLISP 2005
ISCA Archive NOLISP 2005

Source separation techniques applied to blind deconvolution of real world signals

Jordi Solé-Casals, Enric Monte-Moreno

In this paper we present a method for blind deconvolution of linear channels based on source separation techniques, for real word signals. This technique applied to blind deconvolution problems is based in exploiting not the spatial independence between signals but the temporal independence between samples of the signal. Our objective will be to minimize the mutual information of the output in order to retrieve the original signal. To make use of this idea we need that input signal be a non-Gaussian i.i.d. signal. Because most real world signals do not have this i.i.d. nature, we will need to preprocess the original signal before the transmission into the channel. Likewise we should assure that the transmitted signal has non-Gaussian statistics in order to achieve the correct function of the algorithm. The strategy used for this preprocessing will be presented in this paper.