Novel Adaptive Filtering Algorithms Based on Higher-Order Statistics and Geometric Algebra

Adaptive filtering algorithms based on higher-order statistics are proposed for multi-dimensional signal processing in geometric algebra (GA) space. In this paper, the proposed adaptive filtering algorithms utilize the advantage of GA theory in multi-dimensional signal processing to represent a multi-dimensional signal as a GA multivector. In addition, the original least-mean fourth (LMF) and least-mean mixed-norm (LMMN) adaptive filtering algorithms are extended to GA space for multi-dimensional signal processing. Both the proposed GA-based least-mean fourth (GA-LMF) and GA-based least-mean mixed-norm (GA-LMMN) algorithms need to minimize cost functions based on higher-order statistics of the error signal in GA space. The simulation results show that the proposed GA-LMF algorithm performs better in terms of convergence rate and steady-state error under a much smaller step size. The proposed GA-LMMN algorithm makes up for the instability of GA-LMF as the step size increases, and its performance is more stable in mean absolute error and convergence rate.