期刊
SIGNAL PROCESSING
卷 84, 期 2, 页码 267-282出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2003.10.014
关键词
variance modelling; variational Bayesian leaming; factor analysis; hierarchical model; blind source separation
In many models, variances are assumed to be constant although this assumption is often unrealistic in practice. Joint modelling of means and variances is difficult in many learning approaches, because it can lead into infinite probability densities. We show that a Bayesian variational technique which is sensitive to probability mass instead of density is able to jointly model both variances and means. We consider a model structure where a Gaussian variable, called variance node, controls the variance of another Gaussian variable. Variance nodes make it possible to build hierarchical models for both variances and means. We report experiments with artificial data which demonstrate the ability of the learning algorithm to find variance sources explaining and characterizing well the variances in the multidimensional data. Experiments with biomedical MEG data show that variance sources are present in real-world signals. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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