The smoothed reassigned spectrogram for robust energy estimation

• The matched window reassigned spectrogram relocates all signal energy of an oscillating transient to the time- and frequency locations, resulting in a sharp peak in the time-frequency plane. However, previous research has shown that the method may result in split energy peaks for close components and in high noise levels, and the peak energy is then erroneously estimated. With use of novel knowledge on the statistics when subjected to noise, we propose a novel method, the smoothed reassigned spectrogram, for obtaining a stable and accurate measure of the signal energy from the peak value, with retained resolution properties. We also suggest a simple set of rules to enhance the reassigned spectrogram and speed up its calculation. Simulations are performed to verify the accuracy and an application example on radar data is shown.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Signalbehandling (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Signal Processing (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Sannolikhetsteori och statistik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Probability Theory and Statistics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Oscillating transient

Reassignment vector statistics

Smoothing kernels

Time-frequency reassignment

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