Abstract:Independent Component Analysis with Reference (ICA-R) extracts only desired signals by incorporating prior information as reference signals. It can provide output signals with definite order and improved performance. However, no ICA-R algorithm in complex domain has been reported till now. Motivated by the fact that the magnitude information of a complex-valued signal is readily obtained, this paper proposes a fixed-point complex-valued ICA-R algorithm to extract a desired signal by utilizing its magnitude information in the framework of constrained ICA. Specifically, the complex ICA-R is formulated as maximizing the contrast function of a blind complex fastICA algorithm under an inequality constraint corresponding to the magnitude information, the augmented Lagrangian function and Kuhn-Tucker conditions are then used to derive the fixed-point algorithm. The results of computer simulations and performance analysis demonstrate that the complex-valued ICA-R algorithm outperforms the blind complex fastICA algorithm by virtue of incorporation of magnitude information.