Signal detection using time-frequency distributions with non-unity kernels

Khoa Nguyen Le; Kishor P. Dabke; Gregory K. Egan

doi:10.1117/1.1417498

1 December 2001 Signal detection using time-frequency distributions with non-unity kernels

Khoa Nguyen Le, Kishor P. Dabke, Gregory K. Egan

Optical Engineering, Vol. 40, Issue 12, (December 2001). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1417498

A new technique is proposed to solve the simple binary signal-detection problem using a nonunity kernel time-frequency signal detector (GNKD). The GNKD is based on a Cohen time-frequency power spectrum, employing nonunity kernels only. This class of signal detectors includes the Choi-Williams detector (CWWD) and the recently proposed hyperbolic detector (HyD). This work extends the work done by Kumar and Carroll, who investigated the cross unity-kernel Wigner-Ville detector (CWD), which is a special case of the GNKD class. The discrete Moyal's formula for the nonunity kernel time-frequency distribution is derived. The performance of the GNKD is then compared to that of the CWD and the cross-correlator (CORR) detectors by calculating the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the loss factor Q. The GNKD is shown to be better than both the CWD and the CORR with improvement in the SNR by a factor of ?2. The HyD can improve the SNR by about 18% compared to the CWWD. Detection of some practical nonstationary signals is also investigated to exemplify the proposed method.

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Khoa Nguyen Le, Kishor P. Dabke, and Gregory K. Egan "Signal detection using time-frequency distributions with non-unity kernels," Optical Engineering 40(12), (1 December 2001). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1417498

Published: 1 December 2001

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