Independent process analysis without a priori dimensional information

Abstract

Recently, several algorithms have been proposed for independent subspace analysis where hidden variables are i.i.d. processes. We show that these methods can be extended to certain AR, MA, ARMA and ARIMA tasks. Central to our paper is that we introduce a cascade of algorithms, which aims to solve these tasks without previous knowledge about the number and the dimensions of the hidden processes. Our claim is supported by numerical simulations. As an illustrative application where the dimensions of the hidden variables are unknown, we search for subspaces of facial components. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.