Abstract:This paper focuses on the mixing matrix estimation stage,which is the first stage of the two-stage approach based on the sparse sources in underdetermined blind source separation. In the two-stage approach,the accuracy of estimating the mixing matrix will affect the recovered results to a great degree. A new method is put forward to estimate the mixing matrix in sparse domain. This method can recover the mixing matrix in sparse domain by searching the points next to the same line, thus can avoid the interference of the points far from the same line, and reduce the amount of computation greatly. Simulation results show that the method has a good performance.