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This paper presents a novel technique for separating convolutive mixtures of statistically independent non-Gaussian signals without resorting to an a priori knowledge of the sources or the mixing system. This problem is solved in the frequency domain by transforming the convolutive mixture into several instantaneous mixtures which are independently separated using blind source separation (BSS) algorithms. First, the instantaneous mixture at one frequency is solved using the joint approximate diagonalization of eigenmatrices (JADE) technique, and the other mixtures are then separated using the mean squared error (MSE) criterion. As a special case of this method, we consider the separation of non-Gaussian temporally white signals transmitted in blocks with zero padding between them.
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This work has been supported by Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio (Grant CSD2008-00010), Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Grant TEC2007-68020-C04-01) and Xunta de Galicia (PGIDT06TIC10501PR).
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Dapena, A., Iglesia, D. & Escudero, C.J. An MSE-Based Method to Avoid Permutation/Gain Indeterminacy in Frequency-Domain Blind Source Separation. Circuits Syst Signal Process 29, 403–417 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-010-9151-2
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