59 research outputs found
On the Mode Synthesis in the Synchrosqueezing Method
Publication in the conference proceedings of EUSIPCO, Bucharest, Romania, 201
Separation of Agile Waveform Time-Frequency Signatures from Coexisting Multimodal Systems
abstract: As the demand for wireless systems increases exponentially, it has become necessary
for different wireless modalities, like radar and communication systems, to share the
available bandwidth. One approach to realize coexistence successfully is for each
system to adopt a transmit waveform with a unique nonlinear time-varying phase
function. At the receiver of the system of interest, the waveform received for process-
ing may still suffer from low signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) due to the
presence of the waveforms that are matched to the other coexisting systems. This
thesis uses a time-frequency based approach to increase the SINR of a system by estimating the unique nonlinear instantaneous frequency (IF) of the waveform matched
to the system. Specifically, the IF is estimated using the synchrosqueezing transform,
a highly localized time-frequency representation that also enables reconstruction of
individual waveform components. As the IF estimate is biased, modified versions of
the transform are investigated to obtain estimators that are both unbiased and also
matched to the unique nonlinear phase function of a given waveform. Simulations
using transmit waveforms of coexisting wireless systems are provided to demonstrate
the performance of the proposed approach using both biased and unbiased IF estimators.Dissertation/ThesisMasters Thesis Electrical Engineering 201
An adaptive denoising approach to powerline interference reduction in ECG recording
939-951The objective of this paper is to develop an adaptive denoising algorithm for the reduction of powerline interference (PLI) in electrocardiogram (ECG) recording. The problem of mode mixing and inability to deal with non-stationary characteristics have the major drawbacks posed by existing PLI removal techniques. The technique used in the proposed work has been combined with the concept of synchrosqueezing transform with an adaptive filter to overcome such limitations. The synchrosqueezing transform has facilitated as a mode decomposition tool to disintegrate the signal into a set of intrinsic mode functions and then applying adaptive filter on decomposition results to estimate PLI so as to recover noise free ECG. The performance assessment of the proposed techniques have been carried out with several established ECG database available in physio net and its adaptability to powerline frequency drift has also been studied. A comparative analysis has been conducted to validate the proposed techniques. Experimental results have suggested that the proposed SST based PLI reduction approaches provide better denoising effect than state of the art methods
An adaptive denoising approach to powerline interference reduction in ECG recording
The objective of this paper is to develop an adaptive denoising algorithm for the reduction of powerline interference (PLI) in electrocardiogram (ECG) recording. The problem of mode mixing and inability to deal with non-stationary characteristics have the major drawbacks posed by existing PLI removal techniques. The technique used in the proposed work has been combined with the concept of synchrosqueezing transform with an adaptive filter to overcome such limitations. The synchrosqueezing transform has facilitated as a mode decomposition tool to disintegrate the signal into a set of intrinsic mode functions and then applying adaptive filter on decomposition results to estimate PLI so as to recover noise free ECG. The performance assessment of the proposed techniques have been carried out with several established ECG database available in physio net and its adaptability to powerline frequency drift has also been studied. A comparative analysis has been conducted to validate the proposed techniques. Experimental results have suggested that the proposed SST based PLI reduction approaches provide better denoising effect than state of the art methods
Data-driven Signal Decomposition Approaches: A Comparative Analysis
Signal decomposition (SD) approaches aim to decompose non-stationary signals
into their constituent amplitude- and frequency-modulated components. This
represents an important preprocessing step in many practical signal processing
pipelines, providing useful knowledge and insight into the data and relevant
underlying system(s) while also facilitating tasks such as noise or artefact
removal and feature extraction. The popular SD methods are mostly data-driven,
striving to obtain inherent well-behaved signal components without making many
prior assumptions on input data. Among those methods include empirical mode
decomposition (EMD) and variants, variational mode decomposition (VMD) and
variants, synchrosqueezed transform (SST) and variants and sliding singular
spectrum analysis (SSA). With the increasing popularity and utility of these
methods in wide-ranging application, it is imperative to gain a better
understanding and insight into the operation of these algorithms, evaluate
their accuracy with and without noise in input data and gauge their sensitivity
against algorithmic parameter changes. In this work, we achieve those tasks
through extensive experiments involving carefully designed synthetic and
real-life signals. Based on our experimental observations, we comment on the
pros and cons of the considered SD algorithms as well as highlighting the best
practices, in terms of parameter selection, for the their successful operation.
The SD algorithms for both single- and multi-channel (multivariate) data fall
within the scope of our work. For multivariate signals, we evaluate the
performance of the popular algorithms in terms of fulfilling the mode-alignment
property, especially in the presence of noise.Comment: Resubmission with changes in the reference lis
Time-Frequency Ridge Analysis Based on the Reassignment Vector
International audienceThis paper considers the problem of detecting and estimating AM/FM components in the time-frequency plane. It introduces a new algorithm to estimate the ridges corresponding to the instantaneous frequencies of the components, and to segment the time-frequency plane into different `basins of attraction', each basin corresponding to one mode. The technique is based on the structure of the reassignment vector, which is commonly used for sharpening time-frequency representations. Compared with previous approaches, this new method does not need extra parameters, exhibits less sensitivity to the choice of the window and shows better reconstruction performance. Its effectiveness is demonstrated on simulated and real datasets
Multivariate time-frequency analysis
Recent advances in time-frequency theory have led to the development of high resolution time-frequency algorithms, such as the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and
the synchrosqueezing transform (SST). These algorithms provide enhanced localization in representing time varying oscillatory components over conventional linear and quadratic time-frequency algorithms. However, with the emergence of low cost multichannel sensor technology, multivariate extensions of time-frequency algorithms are needed in order to
exploit the inter-channel dependencies that may arise for multivariate data. Applications
of this framework range from filtering to the analysis of oscillatory components.
To this end, this thesis first seeks to introduce a multivariate extension of the synchrosqueezing transform, so as to identify a set of oscillations common to the multivariate
data. Furthermore, a new framework for multivariate time-frequency representations is developed using the proposed multivariate extension of the SST. The performance of the proposed algorithms are demonstrated on a wide variety of both simulated and real world
data sets, such as in phase synchrony spectrograms and multivariate signal denoising.
Finally, multivariate extensions of the EMD have been developed that capture the
inter-channel dependencies in multivariate data. This is achieved by processing such data directly in higher dimensional spaces where they reside, and by accounting for the power
imbalance across multivariate data channels that are recorded from real world sensors, thereby preserving the multivariate structure of the data. These optimized performance
of such data driven algorithms when processing multivariate data with power imbalances and inter-channel correlations, and is demonstrated on the real world examples of Doppler radar processing.Open Acces
Direct Signal Separation Via Extraction of Local Frequencies with Adaptive Time-Varying Parameters
In nature, real-world phenomena that can be formulated as signals (or in
terms of time series) are often affected by a number of factors and appear as
multi-component modes. The natural approach to understand and process such
phenomena is to decompose, or even better, to separate the multi-component
signals to their basic building blocks (called sub-signals or time-series
components, or fundamental modes). Recently the synchro-squeezing transform
(SST) and its variants have been developed for nonstationary signal separation.
More recently, a direct method of the time-frequency approach, called signal
separation operation (SSO), was introduced for multi-component signal
separation. While both SST and SSO are mathematically rigorous on the
instantaneous frequency (IF) estimation, SSO avoids the second step of the
two-step SST method in signal separation, which depends heavily on the accuracy
of the estimated IFs. In the present paper, we solve the signal separation
problem by constructing an adaptive signal separation operator (ASSO) for more
effective separation of the blind-source multi-component signal, via
introducing a time-varying parameter that adapts to local IFs. A recovery
scheme is also proposed to extract the signal components one by one, and the
time-varying parameter is updated for each component. The proposed method is
suitable for engineering implementation, being capable of separating
complicated signals into their sub-signals and reconstructing the signal trend
directly. Numerical experiments on synthetic and real-world signals are
presented to demonstrate our improvement over the previous attempts
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