{"title":"Windowed iterative estimation of the parameters of a damped complex exponential in noise","authors":"E. Aboutanios","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.43590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.43590","url":null,"abstract":"The estimation of the frequency and decay factor of a single decaying exponential in noise is an important problem that has commanded significant attention in the research literature. In this paper, we examine the performance of computationally simple, yet accurate and robust, discrete Fourier transform based estimators. These estimators employ a coarse search followed by an interpolation step to obtain precise estimates of the parameters. Although their performance initially improves as the number of samples is increased, it reaches a minimum before departing significantly from the Cramer Rao Lower Bound (CRLB). We tackle this problem in this paper and propose a windowing strategy that allows the estimation performance to track the CRLB for a large number of samples. Furthermore, a practical implementation of the proposed method is given. Extensive simulations are reported that demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.","PeriodicalId":400766,"journal":{"name":"21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2013)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132429622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Localised Capon spectral estimator with application to the processing of NMR signal","authors":"Shanglin Ye, E. Aboutanios","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.43560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.43560","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a localised Capon spectral estimator that exhibits improved ability of resolving closely spaced peaks in the frequency domain. Starting with a unitary transformation using the discrete Fourier transform results in signals of interest being localised to small regions of the spectrum. Therefore, the algorithm uses this fact to construct a covariance matrix with low dimensionality, which can be easily inverted. This reduces the number of samples required to be averaged to produce the covariance matrix and as a result allows the spectrum resolution to be improved. In the simulation results, by comparing with the original Capon, the effectiveness of the novel estimator in resolving close peaks is demonstrated using both simulated undamped exponentials and simulated NMR spectroscopy signal (that is damped exponentials).","PeriodicalId":400766,"journal":{"name":"21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2013)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130939373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jean-Pierre Da Costa, Stefan Oprean, P. Baylou, C. Germain
{"title":"Estimating the distribution of 3D generalized cylinders angles from an image","authors":"Jean-Pierre Da Costa, Stefan Oprean, P. Baylou, C. Germain","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.43326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.43326","url":null,"abstract":"The use of 3D imaging techniques is a choice approach for the study of the inner structure of materials. However, for large industrial applications, the stereological analysis of 2D snapshots of material sections is still necessary for obvious time and cost reasons. We present a novel method to analyze the 3D layout of cylindrical structures from a single 2D section. In particular we propose to estimate the distribution of cutting angles i.e. angles between the cylinders axis and the normal to the image plane. Contrary to existing approaches, the knowledge of the cylinder cross section shape is not a prerequisite. The only required input is the statistical distribution of the cylinder cross section area. Our approach is based on the minimization of a least squares criterion under linear constraints. It is evaluated on synthetic data and applied to microscopy images of fibrous composites. Our experimental study focuses on the capabilities and limitations of the approach.","PeriodicalId":400766,"journal":{"name":"21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2013)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130217946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy efficient MIMO transmission with high order modulations for wireless sensor network","authors":"B. Han, A. Kalis, C. Papadias, R. Prasad","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.43614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.43614","url":null,"abstract":"Energy efficiency emerges as a big concern in wireless sensor networks, where the lifetime of the system depends heavily on energy consumption. In a sensor network, the energy is consumed both by the circuit and the radio link. The radio link performance can be improved by using spatial multiplexing, but the conventional way of spatial multiplexing requires large antenna space and consumes more energy. Thus single RF MIMO transmission is proposed, which maps MIMO symbols on the radiation patterns to reduce power consumption. This paper presents the energy efficiency analysis over different schemes, which extends single RF MIMO capability with 16-QAM constellation though compact ESPAR antenna with only 2 elements. A detailed analysis on the minimal required energy is given, which shows that the proposed single RF MIMO with 16-QAM signaling has similar bit error rate performance with better energy efficiency.","PeriodicalId":400766,"journal":{"name":"21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2013)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130482144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subspace-based spectrum estimation by nuclear norm minimization","authors":"H. Akçay, S. Türkay","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.43436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.43436","url":null,"abstract":"Subspace-based methods have been effectively used to estimate multi-input/multi-output, linear-time-invariant systems from noisy spectrum samples. In these methods, a critical step is splitting of two invariant subspaces associated with causal and non-causal eigenvalues of some structured matrices built from spectrum measurements via singular-value decomposition in order to determine model order. Mirror image symmetry with respect to the unit circle between the eigenvalue sets of the invariant spaces, required by these algorithms, is lost due to low signal-to-noise ratio, unmodelled dynamics, and insufficient amount of data. Consequently, the choice of model order is not straightforward. In this paper, we propose a robust model order selection scheme based on regularized nuclear norm optimization in combination with a recent subspace algorithm, which uses non-uniformly spaced, in frequencies, spectrum measurements. A simulation example shows the effectiveness of the proposed scheme to large amplitude noise over short data records. Then, the proposed scheme is used to design a linear-shape filter for random road excitations.","PeriodicalId":400766,"journal":{"name":"21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2013)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127873392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Online multi-speaker tracking using multiple microphone arrays informed by auditory scene analysis","authors":"A. Plinge, G. Fink","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.43511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.43511","url":null,"abstract":"Tracking multiple speakers with microphone arrays is used for practical applications such as video conferencing. An important task is the integration of multiple arrays with correct associations of multiple concurrent speakers. A single-array tracking approach based on CASA is extended here to probabilistic tracking with multiple arrays in order to handle a varying number of moving speakers over time and assign the concurrent localizations of multiple sensors to the speakers. Tracking is done simultaneously in angular and Euclidean space. The effectiveness of the method is shown with recordings of real speakers in a reverberant conference room by evaluation on the publicly available AV16.3 corpus.","PeriodicalId":400766,"journal":{"name":"21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2013)","volume":"112 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114299103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal OFDM pulse design, analysis and implementation over doubly dispersive channel","authors":"Raouia Ayadi, I. Kammoun, M. Siala","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.43676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.43676","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers optimization and implementation of the pulse shape for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems over doubly dispersive channel. The proposed pulse shape is expressed as a linear combination of the most localized Hermite waveforms. In our previous works, we have proposed pulses optimization based on an exact expression of the Signal to Interference Ratio (SIR). In order to accelerate the optimization procedure, we propose an approximate expression of the SIR using Taylor series of interference and desired signal mean powers. For a performance evaluation of the optimized OFDM system, we propose an efficient implementation of both the modulator and the demodulator of the system and an efficient method to find out the resulting simulated SIR. Simulations results, obtained for different values of the dispersion factor, show that the SIR computed through system level simulation matches the maximum achievable SIR obtained through numerical optimization.","PeriodicalId":400766,"journal":{"name":"21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2013)","volume":"6 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131487009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Licea, D. McLernon, M. Ghogho, Syed Ali Raza Zaidi
{"title":"An energy saving robot mobility diversity algorithm for wireless communications","authors":"D. Licea, D. McLernon, M. Ghogho, Syed Ali Raza Zaidi","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.43729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.43729","url":null,"abstract":"There are emerging applications in which a robot must explore some physical area or do some surveillance task and then communicate with a base station (BS) to transmit its information. Often this working environment has rich scattering and so the wireless channel will experience small scale fading. In this paper we develop an algorithm whereby the robot visits a specific number of locations with a pre-determined geometry, and transmits its data from one of these locations in an optimum way that minimizes the overall energy consumption. We show analytically (and via simulation) that this approach can both reduce the total energy required and obtain a diversity gain for robotic wireless communications.","PeriodicalId":400766,"journal":{"name":"21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2013)","volume":"182 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115204913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hang Ma, P. Acco, M. Boucheret, D. Fournier-Prunaret
{"title":"Chaos-based TOA estimator for DS-UWB ranging systems in multiuser environment","authors":"Hang Ma, P. Acco, M. Boucheret, D. Fournier-Prunaret","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.43422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.43422","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a chaos-based decoupled multiuser ranging (DEMR) estimator for multiuser DS-UWB ranging system. In the DEMR estimator, users are decoupled by the knowledge of all the users' limited number of data bits. Then, the ranging performance of each user mainly depends on the non-cyclic autocorrelation property of the spreading code. Based on this property, we improve DEMR estimator by using the selected binary chaotic sequences instead of the Gold sequences in order to increase the system capacity and to improve the ranging accuracy. Simulations in CM1 channel show that the chaos-based DEMR estimator is quite near-far resistant and achieves a noticeable ranging accuracy even in a heavily loaded system. Compared with using Gold sequences, chaos-based DEMR not only works with more users than full load of Gold sequences but also improves the ranging accuracy especially under low SNR condition.","PeriodicalId":400766,"journal":{"name":"21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2013)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116544675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Zolliker, Z. Baranczuk, D. Küpper, Iris Sprow, T. Stamm
{"title":"Creating HDR video content for visual quality assessment using stop-motion","authors":"P. Zolliker, Z. Baranczuk, D. Küpper, Iris Sprow, T. Stamm","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.43358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.43358","url":null,"abstract":"A complete workflow from capture via processing to the display of video sequences, entirely in high dynamic range (HDR), is described. This workflow is set up to allow for image quality assessment of HDR content with renderings for smaller dynamic ranges. Special emphasis is on the controlled reproduction of lightness and color. Our method allows capturing scenes with a high dynamic range, storing the HDR content in physically meaningful units and displaying it on a commercially available HDR display.","PeriodicalId":400766,"journal":{"name":"21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2013)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117133637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}