Joint Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Underdetermined Blind Source Separation in Nonlinear Mixtures

An approach is proposed for underdetermined blind separation of nonnegative dependent (overlapped) sources from their nonlinear mixtures. The method performs empirical kernel maps based mappings of original data matrix onto reproducible kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs). Provided that sources comply with probabilistic model that is sparse in support and amplitude nonlinear underdetermined mixture model in the input space becomes overdetermined linear mixture model in RKHS comprised of original sources and their mostly second-order monomials. It is assumed that linear mixture models in different RKHSs share the same representation, i.e. the matrix of sources. Thus, we propose novel sparseness regularized joint nonnegative matrix factorization method to separate sources shared across different RKHSs. The method is validated comparatively on numerical problem related to extraction of eight overlapped sources from three nonlinear mixtures.