83 research outputs found
Performance Variability Analysis of Photonic Circuits with Many Correlated Parameters
We propose a method to analyze the performance variability caused by fabrication uncertainty in photonic circuits with a large number of correlated parameters. By combining a sparse polynomial chaos expansion model with dimensionality reduction in the form of Karhunen-Loève transform and principal component analysis, we demonstrate the stochastic analysis of the transfer function of cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers with up to 38 correlated uncertain parameters
Recognition and reconstruction of coherent energy with application to deep seismic reflection data
Reflections in deep seismic reflection data tend to be
visible on only a limited number of traces in a common
midpoint gather. To prevent stack degeneration,
any noncoherent reflection energy has to be removed.
In this paper, a standard classification technique in
remote sensing is presented to enhance data quality. It
consists of a recognition technique to detect and extract
coherent energy in both common shot gathers and fi-
nal stacks. This technique uses the statistics of a picked
seismic phase to obtain the likelihood distribution of its
presence. Multiplication of this likelihood distribution
with the original data results in a âcleaned upâ section.
Application of the technique to data from a deep seismic
reflection experiment enhanced the visibility of all
reflectors considerably.
Because the recognition technique cannot produce an
estimate of âmissingâ data, it is extended with a reconstruction
method. Two methods are proposed: application
of semblance weighted local slant stacks after recognition,
and direct recognition in the linear tau-p domain.
In both cases, the power of the stacking process to increase the signal-to-noise ratio is combined with the direct selection of only specific seismic phases. The joint
application of recognition and reconstruction resulted in
data images which showed reflectors more clearly than
application of a single technique
Performance analysis of the KarhunenâLoève Transform for artificial and astrophysical transmissions: denoizing and detection
In this work, we propose a new method of computing the KarhunenâLoève Transform (KLT) applied to complex voltage data for the detection and noise level reduction in astronomical signals. We compared this method with the standard KLT techniques based on the Toeplitz correlation matrix and we conducted a performance analysis for the detection and extraction of astrophysical and artificial signals via Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. We applied our novel method to a real data study-case: the Voyager 1 telemetry signal. We evaluated the KLT performance in an astrophysical context: our technique provides a remarkable improvement in computation time and MC simulations show significant reconstruction results for signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) down to â10 dB and comparable results with standard signal detection techniques. The application to artificial signals, such as the Voyager 1 data, shows a notable gain in SNR after the KLT
Adaptive distributed transforms for irregularly sampled Wireless Sensor Networks
We develop energy-efficient, adaptive distributed transforms for data gathering in wireless sensor networks. In particular, we con-sider a class of unidirectional transforms that are computed as data is forwarded to the sink along a given routing tree and develop a tree-based Karhunen-LoeĚve Transform (KLT) that is optimal in that it achieves maximum data de-correlation among this class of trans-forms. As an alternative to this KLT (which incurs communication overhead in order to learn second order data statistics), we propose a backward adaptive filter optimization algorithm for distributed wavelet transforms that i) achieves near optimal performance and ii) has no communication overhead in learning statistics
Recent advances in theory and methods for nonstationary signal analysis
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Neural networks in geophysical applications
Neural networks are increasingly popular in geophysics.
Because they are universal approximators, these
tools can approximate any continuous function with an
arbitrary precision. Hence, they may yield important
contributions to finding solutions to a variety of geophysical applications.
However, knowledge of many methods and techniques
recently developed to increase the performance
and to facilitate the use of neural networks does not seem
to be widespread in the geophysical community. Therefore,
the power of these tools has not yet been explored to
their full extent. In this paper, techniques are described
for faster training, better overall performance, i.e., generalization,and the automatic estimation of network size
and architecture
Towards effective information content assessment: analytical derivation of information loss in the reconstruction of random fields with model uncertainty
Structures are abundant in both natural and human-made environments and
usually studied in the form of images or scattering patterns. To characterize
structures a huge variety of descriptors is available spanning from porosity to
radial and correlation functions. In addition to morphological structural
analysis, such descriptors are necessary for stochastic reconstructions,
stationarity and representativity analysis. The most important characteristic
of any such descriptor is its information content - or its ability to describe
the structure at hand. For example, from crystallography it is well known that
experimentally measurable correlation function lacks necessary
information content to describe majority of structures. The information content
of this function can be assessed using Monte-Carlo methods only for very small
2D images due to computational expenses. Some indirect quantitative approaches
for this and other correlation function were also proposed. Yet, to date no
methodology to obtain information content for arbitrary 2D or 3D image is
available. In this work, we make a step toward developing a general framework
to perform such computations analytically. We show, that one can assess the
entropy of a perturbed random field and that stochastic perturbation of fields
correlation function decreases its information content. In addition to
analytical expression, we demonstrate that different regions of correlation
function are in different extent informative and sensitive for perturbation.
Proposed model bridges the gap between descriptor-based heterogeneous media
reconstruction and information theory and opens way for computationally
effective way to compute information content of any descriptor as applied to
arbitrary structure.Comment: Keywords: correlation functions, structure characterization,
structural descriptors, image analysis, information conten
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