Esa Ollila, Ph. D. (Stat), D.Sc. (Tech)

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Adjunct Professor 
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Oulu

Fax: +358-8-553 1848
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Academy Research Fellow
Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics
Aalto University

Fax: +358-9-553 1848
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IEEE Bio

My research interests include
  • Multivariate robust and nonparametric statistical methods 
  • Theory and methods of Statistical signal processing,
  • Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Blind Source Separation (BSS)
  • Array and radar signal processing
  • Complex-valued signal processing
Theses
  • "Contributions to independent component analysis, sensor array and complex-valued signal processing", Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics, Report 14, 106 + 106 pages, 2010 [Dr.Tech. Thesis]. ISBN 978-952-60-3030-2.
  • "Sign and rank covariance matrices with applications to multivariate analysis", Report 85, 42 pages, 2002 [Ph.D. Thesis (Stat.)].
Courses
Recent Activities
  • TPC member of ICA'2009  (Int'l Conf. on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation 2009)
  • Co-organizer of ICORS'05  (Int'l Conf. on Robust Statistics 2005)
  • Reviewer  for Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Sankhya Indian Journal of Statistics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, IEEE transactions on signal processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, IEEE Signal processing letters, Signal Processing (Journal of EURASIP), Information Sciences, Journal of Machine Learning Research

A/ Papers in international scientific journals with peer review practise

A18
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On testing the extent of noncircularity
Mike Novey, Esa Ollila & Tulay Adali
IEEE Trans. on signal processing,  vol. 59, no. 11, pp. 5632 - 5637,  2011.

A17
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Complex elliptically symmetric random variables --  generation, characterization and circularity tests
Esa Ollila, Jan Eriksson & Visa Koivunen
IEEE Trans. on signal processing,  vol. 59, no.1, pp. 58 - 69,  2011.

A16
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Essential statistics and tools for complex random variables
Jan Eriksson, Esa Ollila & Visa Koivunen
IEEE Trans. on signal processing, vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 5400 - 5408, 2010

A15
Effects of  repeatability measures on results of fMRI sICA: A study on simulated and real resting-state effects
Jukka J. Remes, Tuomo Starck, Juha Nikkinen, Esa Ollila, Christian F. Beckmann, Osmo Tervonen, Vesa Kiviniemi, Olli Silven.
NeuroImage, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 554-569, 2011

A14
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The deflation-based FastICA estimator: statistical analysis revisited
Esa Ollila
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 1527-1541, 2010

A13
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On the circularity of a complex random variable
Esa Ollila
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 15, pp. 841-844, 2008.

A12
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 Complex-valued ICA using generalized uncorrelating transformation
Esa Ollila & Visa Koivunen
Signal Processing,  vol. 89, no. 4, pp 365-377, 2009.
A11
Robust independent component analysis based on two scatter matrices
Klaus Nordhausen,  Hannu Oja & Esa Ollila
Austrian Journal of Statistics,  vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 91-100, 2008.

A10
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Influence function and asymptotic efficiency of scatter matrix based array processors: Case MVDR beamformer
Esa Ollila & Visa Koivunen
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 247-259, 2009.

A9
Compact Cramer-Rao bound expression for independent component analysis
Esa Ollila, Hyon-Jung Kim & Visa Koivunen
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,  vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 1421-1428, 2008.

A8
Complex-valued ICA based on a pair of generalized covariance matrices
Esa Ollila, Hannu Oja & Visa Koivunen
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis,  vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 3789-3805, 2008.

A7
Stochastic maximum-likelihood method for MIMO propagation parameter estimation
Cassio Ribeiro, Esa Ollila & Visa Koivunen
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,  vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 46 - 55, 2007.

A6

Influence functions and efficiencies of the canonical correlation and vector estimates based on scatter and shape matrices
Sara Taskinen, Christophe Croux, Annaliisa Kankainen, Esa Ollila & Hannu Oja
Journal of Multivariate Analysis,  vol. 97, no. 2, pp. 359 - 384, 2006.

A5
Influence function and asymptotic efficiency of the affine equivariant rank covariance matrix
Esa Ollila, Christophe Croux & Hannu Oja
Statistica Sinica, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 297 - 316, 2004.

A4
Estimates of regression coefficients based on lift rank covariance matrix
Esa Ollila, Hannu Oja & Visa Koivunen
Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 99, no. 461, pp. 90 - 98, 2003. 
SOFTWARE

A3 Affine equivariant multivariate rank methods
Samuli Visuri, Esa Ollila, Visa Koivunen, Jyrki Möttönen & Hannu Oja
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference,  vol. 114, pp. 161 - 185, 2003.

A2
The affine equivariant sign covariance matrix: asymptotic behavior and efficiencies
Esa Ollila, Hannu Oja & Christophe Croux 
Journal of Multivariate Analysis, vol. 87, no. 2, pp. 328 - 355, 2003.

A1
Estimates of regression coefficients based on sign covariance matrix
Esa Ollila, Thomas P. Hettmansperger & Hannu Oja
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Ser. B,  vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 447 - 466, 2002.

B/ Chapters in books with a referee practice

B5
Multivariate models and the first four moments  (15 pages)
Klaus Nordhausen, Hannu Oja & Esa Ollila
Nonparametric Statistics and Mixture Models:  A Festschrift in Honor of Thomas P. Hettmansperger, Eds. D. Hunter, D. Richards, J. L. Rosenberger, pp. 267-287, World Scientific, January 2011. 

B4
Robust estimation techniques for complex-valued random vectors
Esa Ollila & Visa Koivunen
Adaptive Signal Processing: Next Generation Solutions, Eds. T. Adali &  S. Haykin, Wiley, pp. 89-141 (chapter 2), March 2010.

B3 Direction-of-arrival estimation under uncertainty
Visa Koivunen & Esa Ollila
Advances in Direction-of-Arrival Estimation, Ed. S. Chandran, Boston: Artech house, pp. 241-256, 2006.

B2
Robust ML-estimation of the transmitter location
Esa Ollila & Visa Koivunen
Theory and Applications of Recent Robust Methods, Eds. M. Hubert, G. Pison, A. Struyf  & S. Van Aelst, Series: Statistics for Industry and Technology, Basel: Birkhäuser, pp. 247 - 258, 2004.

B1
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Sign and rank covariance matrices: statistical properties and application to principal components analysis
Christophe Croux, Esa Ollila & Hannu Oja
Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L_1-norm and Related Methods, Ed. Y. Dodge,  Basel: Birkhäuser, pp. 257 - 271, 2002.

C/ Refereed international conference publications 

C19
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Distribution-free detection under complex elliptically symmetric clutter distribution
Esa Ollila & David E. Tyler
The 7th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM'12), Hoboken, NJ,  USA , June 17-20, 2012.
C18
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Deflation-based FastICA reloaded
Klaus Nordhausen, Pauliina Ilmonen, Abhijit Mandal, Hannu Oja & Esa Ollila
19th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO'11), pp. 1854 - 1858, Barcelona, Spain,  Aug 29 - Sep  2,  2011.

C17
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On the performance indices of ICA and blind source separation
Klaus Nordhausen, Esa Ollila & Hannu Oja
12th IEEE Int.  Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications (SPAWC'11), pp. 461 - 465, San Fransisco, CA, June 26-29,  2011.

C16
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A robust estimator and detector of circularity of complex signals
 Esa Ollila, Visa Koivunen & H. Vincent Poor
 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'11), pp. 3620 - 3623, Prague, Czech republic, May 22 - 27, 2011. 

C15
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On testing hypotheses of mixing vectors in the ICA model using FastICA
Esa Ollila & Hyon-Jung Kim
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
(ISBI'11), pp. 325 - 328, Chicago, USA, Mar. 30  - Apr. 2, 2011.

C14
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Complex-valued signal processing - essential models, tools and statistics
Esa Ollila, Visa Koivunen & H. Vincent Poor
2011 Information Theory and Applications Workshop,  San Diego, CA,  USA, Feb 6 - 11,  2011.

C13
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A new performance index for ICA: properties, computation and asymptotic analysis
Pauliina Ilmonen, Klaus Nordhausen, Hannu Oja & Esa Ollila
In Vigneron, V., Zarzoso, V., Moreau, E., Gribonval, R. and Vincent, E. (editors) ,
Latent Variable Analysis and Signal  Separation, pp. 229-236, Springer, Heidelberg, 2010.

C12
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On the robustness of the deflation-based FastICA estimator
Esa Ollila
IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP'09),  pp. 673–676, Cardiff, Wales UK, Aug. 31 - Sept. 3, 2009

C11
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Adjusting the generalized likelihood ratio test of circularity robust to non-normality
Esa Ollila & Visa Koivunen
10th IEEE Int.  Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications (SPAWC'09), pp. 558 -- 562, Perugia, Italy, June 21-24,  2009.
SOFTWARE

C10
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Statistics for complex random variables revisited
Jan Eriksson, Esa Ollila & Visa Koivunen
IEEE Int.  Conf.  Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'09), pp. 3565 --  3568, Taipei, Taiwan, April 19-24, 2009.

C9
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On the Cramer-Rao  bound for the constrained and unconstrained complex parameters
Esa Ollila, Visa Koivunen & Jan Eriksson
IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM'08) , pp. 414 -- 418, Darmstadt, Germany, July 21-23, 2008.

C8 Robust ICA based on two scatter matrices
Klaus Nordhausen, Hannu Oja & Esa Ollila
8th Int. Conference on Computer Data Analysis and Modeling (CDAM'07), pp. 84 - 91, Minsk, Belarus, Sept. 11-15, 2007
C7 Propagation parameter estimation in MIMO systems using mixture of angular distributions model
Cassio Ribeiro, Esa Ollila & Visa Koivunen
IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing  (ICASSP'05), vol. 4, pp. 885 -- 888, Philadelphia, USA, March 18-23, 2005.

C6
Generalized complex elliptical distributions
Esa Ollila & Visa Koivunen
3rd IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM'04), pp. 460 -- 464, Sitges, Spain, July 18-21, 2004.
SOFTWARE

C5 Cramer-Rao bound for angular propagation parameter estimation in MIMO systems
Cassio Ribeiro, Esa Ollila & Visa Koivunen
38th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers,  vol. 2,  pp. 1785 --1789, Pacific Grove, USA, Nov. 7-10, 2004.

C4 Stochastic maximum likelihood method for propagation parameter estimation
Cassio Ribeiro, Esa Ollila & Visa Koivunen
15th IEEE Int. Symp. Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications  (PIMRC'04), vol. 3,  pp. 1839 --1843, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 5-8, 2004. 

C3 Robust space-time scatter matrix estimator for broadband antenna arrays
Esa Ollila & Visa Koivunen
58th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference  (VTC 2003-Fall), vol. 1, pp. 55 -- 59, Orlando, USA, Oct. 6-9, 2003.

C2
Influence functions for array covariance matrix estimators
Esa Ollila & Visa Koivunen
IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP'03),  pp. 445 -- 448,  St. Louis, USA, Sept. 28- Oct. 1, 2003.

C1
Robust antenna array processing using M-estimators of pseudo-covariance
Esa Ollila & Visa Koivunen
14th IEEE Int. Symp. Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'03), vol. 3, pp. 2659 -- 2663, Beijing, China, Sept. 7-10, 2003. 

D/ Submitted papers


Independent component (IC) functionals and a new performance index
 Pauliina Ilmonen, Klaus Nordhausen, Hannu Oja & Esa Ollila

E/ Software

  E1
Matlab package for complex M-estimators of scatter
here you can find the Matlab programs to compute the complex M-estimators of scatter introduced in  Publication C1. Complex M-estimators of scatter can be used e.g. in constructing robust array processors.

E2
Matlab package for GLRT and the adjusted GLRT of circularity 
Here you can find the Matlab programs to compute circularity detectors introduced in Publications C6  and C11.

E3
Matlab package for CES distribution and related circularity detectors
Here you can find the Matlab programs to generate random variables from CES distribution and compute circularity detectors introduced in Publication A17

E4
C and R progams for computation of Oja lift  ranks, rank covariance matrix and regression estimates
Here are the programs and the method is explained in Publication A4.

F/ Recent talks

Feb 10
2011
``Complex-valued Signal Processing - essential models, tools and statistics'', ITA'11,  USA:  San Diego, 2011.
Nov. 29
2010
``On testing hypotheses of mixing matrix and mixing vectors in the ICA model'', University of Maryland,  Nov 29, 2010.

Sept. 3
2009
``On the robustness of deflation-based FastICA estimator", IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP'09), Wales: Cardiff, Aug. 31- Sept. 3, 2009

May 23 2008
``Nonparametric Tests of Circularity of Complex-Valued Random Vectors", Nonparametric statistics and mixture models: past, present, and future, USA: Penn State University, May 23-24, 2008.

Feb 4 
2008
``Riippumattomien komponenttien analyysi", University of Oulu, Department of Mathematical Sciences (dosenttiluento)

Dec 18
2007
``Generalized Uncorrelating Transformations with Applications in ICA and Wireless Communications", Mini-Workshop on Robust Statistics, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. 

Jun  2 
2007
``ICA of non-circular sources based on generalized uncorrelating transformation'', 16th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics (IWMS'07), Canada: Windsor, Jun 1-3, 2007. 

Jul 18 
2006
``Robust complex independent component analysis'', International Conference on Robust Statistics  (ICORS'06), Portugal: Lisbon, 16-21 July 2006.