Neural network implementations of independent component analysis

The performance of six neuromorphic adaptive structurally different algorithms was analyzed in blind separation of independent artificially generated signals using the stationary linear independent component analysis (ICA) model. The estimated independent components were assessed and compared aiming to rank the neural ICA implementations. All algorithms were run with different contrast functions, which were optimally selected on the basis of maximizing the sum of individual negentropies of the network outputs. Both subgaussian and supergaussian one-dimensional time series were employed throughout the numerical simulations.