Fang Wang, Daiming Qu, Tao Jiang, B. Farhang-Boroujeny
{"title":"Tail shortening by virtual symbols in FBMC-OQAM signals","authors":"Fang Wang, Daiming Qu, Tao Jiang, B. Farhang-Boroujeny","doi":"10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369545","url":null,"abstract":"Filter bank multicarrier with offset quadrature amplitude modulation (FBMC-OQAM) signaling offers almost the full spectral efficiency (one complex symbol per unit area in the time-frequency plane) for long data packets. However, because of the ramp-up and ramp-down of the waveform at the beginning and the end of each packet, its spectral efficiency can drop significantly in short packets/data bursts. In this paper, we propose a novel method that shortens the ramp-up and ramp-down of FBMC-OQAM signals by appending a few virtual symbols at the beginning and the end of each packet and subsequently applying a time window. Simulation results show that the proposed method has a much improved error vector magnitude (EVM) and similar out-of-band (OOB) emission performance, when compared with a truncation method through a similar window, but without transmitting virtual symbols.","PeriodicalId":91992,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Signal Processing and Signal Processing Education Workshop (SP/SPE)","volume":"15 1","pages":"157-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74882356","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":"A comparative study of commuting matrix approaches for the discrete fractional fourier transform","authors":"I. Bhatta, Balu Santhanam","doi":"10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369518","url":null,"abstract":"As an extension of the conventional Fourier transform and as a time-frequency signal analysis tool, the fractional Fourier transforms (FRFT) are suitable for dealing with various types of non-stationary signals. Computation of the discrete fractional Fourier transform (DFRFT) and its chirp concentration properties are both dependent on the basis of DFT eigenvectors used in the computation. Several DFT-eigenvector bases have been proposed for the computation of transform, and there is no common framework for comparing them. In this paper, we compare several different approaches from a conceptual viewpoint and review the differences between them. We discuss five different approaches to find centered-DFT (CDFT) commuting matrices and the various properties of these commuting matrices. We study the properties of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of these commuting matrices to determine whether they resemble those of corresponding continuous Gauss-Hermite operator. We also measure the performance of these five approaches in terms of: mailobe-to-sidelobe ratio, 10-dB bandwidth, quality factor, linearity of eigenvalues, chirp parameter estimation error, and, finally the peak-to-parameter mapping regions. We compare the five approaches using these performance metrics and point out that the modified QMFD approach produces the best results in terms of bandwidth of the spectral peak for a chirp, invertibility of the peak-parameter mapping, linearity of the eigenvalue spectrum and chirp parameter estimation errors.","PeriodicalId":91992,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Signal Processing and Signal Processing Education Workshop (SP/SPE)","volume":"34 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78478706","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}
Fernando A. Mujica, William J. Esposito, Alex Gonzalez, C. Qi, C. Vassos, M. Wieman, Reggie Wilcox, G. Kovacs, R. Schafer
{"title":"Teaching digital signal processing with Stanford's Lab-in-a-Box","authors":"Fernando A. Mujica, William J. Esposito, Alex Gonzalez, C. Qi, C. Vassos, M. Wieman, Reggie Wilcox, G. Kovacs, R. Schafer","doi":"10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369571","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes our efforts to include a hands-on component in the teaching of core concepts of digital signal processing. The basis of our approach was the low-cost and open-source “Stanford Lab in a Box.” This system, with its easy to use Arduino-like programming interface allowed students to see how fundamental DSP concepts such as digital filters, FFT, and multi-rate processing can be implemented in real time on a fixed-point processor. The paper describes how the Lab in a Box was used to provide a new dimension to the teaching of DSP.","PeriodicalId":91992,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Signal Processing and Signal Processing Education Workshop (SP/SPE)","volume":"219 1","pages":"307-312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74952454","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":"Direction finding and localization for far-field sources with near-field multipath reflections","authors":"A. Elbir, T. E. Tuncer","doi":"10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369540","url":null,"abstract":"Multipath signals are main source of error for parameter estimation in direction finding applications. In this paper, a new method is proposed for the estimation of direction-of-arrivals (DOA) of a far-field source and localization of its near-field multipath reflections in two steps. Firstly, far-field source DOA is estimated using a calibration technique. In the second step, a near-to-far field transformation is presented in order to eliminate the far-field components of the array data and obtain only near-field signal components to estimate the near-field multipath signals. The proposed method uses uniform circular array in order to give 2D DOA estimation for far-field signal and virtual uniform linear array structure is used in order to estimate locations of the near-field multipaths. The proposed method is evaluated using both ideal and close-to-real world data sets. It is shown that far and near-field source parameters are effectively estimated.","PeriodicalId":91992,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Signal Processing and Signal Processing Education Workshop (SP/SPE)","volume":"21 1","pages":"130-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91198272","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":"Using the ARM Cortex-M4 and the CMSIS-DSP library for teaching real-time DSP","authors":"M. Wickert","doi":"10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369567","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we describe experiences working with the Cortex-M4 microcontroller in a graduate/senior elective real-time DSP course. Previously the same course used dedicated DSP processors, but the invitation from the ARM University Program to try out a new Lab-in-a-box (LiB) kit for teaching real-time DSP was intriguing. The hardware is inexpensive, costing only $50, thus allowing students to buy their own boards. The LiB comes with teaching materials, but beyond the use of the audio codec software library, essentially all of this new course was developed by rewriting teaching materials from a previous course, and making extensive changes to adapt to the new software and hardware. Of particular interest is CMSIS-DSP, the Cortex-M Software Interface Standard (CMSIS) DSP library, which contains over 60 DSP algorithms in both fixed-point and floating-point. By using this library students become familiar with the Misra C coding standard, and software re-use. Developing algorithms in C from scratch is still needed and encouraged. When writing a custom filter algorithm for example, the students can benchmark against one or more CMSIS-DSP library algorithms. The Digilent Analog™Discovery PC-based instrumentation and the use of IPython notebook were also added into the new course.","PeriodicalId":91992,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Signal Processing and Signal Processing Education Workshop (SP/SPE)","volume":"80 6 1","pages":"283-288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83872224","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":"Reduced dimensionality, information rich visual representations for scene classification","authors":"Kaveri A. Thakoor","doi":"10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369525","url":null,"abstract":"We present a reduced dimensionality, information rich (RDIR) visual representation for scene information that distills the most distinguishing elements in an image, enabling scene classification by humans and computers under reduced dimensionality conditions. The representation utilizes the Gist model [1] to convey scene information in low bandwidth conditions, exhibiting enhanced classification performance for humans and computers compared to the current downsampling method used by the Retinal Prosthesis System [2], which restores partial vision for people without sight. We show that as few as 6-pixel, 3-bit images are sufficient for successful classification by humans of 4 classes within the Natural Scene Dataset [3]. Human and computer classification accuracy on RDIR scenes is consistently higher than that on downsampled (DS) (spatially averaged) scenes. While DS scenes may seem more intuitive to interpret since spatial layout is preserved in them, we show that the dimensionality reduction via Principal Components Analysis (PCA) following Gist processing enables distinguishability for 6-dimensional RDIR images. We conduct a short trade-off study for human learning vs. SVM classification and conclude with application of the RDIR technique to classification of 6 locations on the University of Southern California (USC) campus.","PeriodicalId":91992,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Signal Processing and Signal Processing Education Workshop (SP/SPE)","volume":"59 1","pages":"43-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83876488","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":"Source localization with sparse recovery for coherent far- and near-field signals","authors":"A. Elbir, T. E. Tuncer","doi":"10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369539","url":null,"abstract":"In source localization applications, coherency among the signals is an important source of error for parameter estimation. In this paper, a method is proposed to solve the localization problem where there are coherently mixed arbitrary number of far- and near-field sources. In order to estimate the direction-of-arrival (DOA) and the range parameters, compressed sensing (CS) approach is presented where a dictionary matrix is constructed with far- and near-field steering vectors. A sparse vector including the supports of the source signals is estimated in spatial domain. The supports of coherent signals are recovered by using convex minimization techniques. It is shown that the proposed approach recovers the signal components of the array output as well as determining the source locations.","PeriodicalId":91992,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Signal Processing and Signal Processing Education Workshop (SP/SPE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"124-129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87537967","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":"Sparse recovery using an SVD approach to interference removal and parameter estimation","authors":"C. Hayes, J. McClellan, W. Scott","doi":"10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369553","url":null,"abstract":"This work focuses on parametric sparse sensing models and looks to improve ℓ1 regularization results when the model dictionary is strongly coherent and/or regularization parameters are unknown. The singular value decomposition (SVD) of the model's dictionary matrix is used to construct signal and noise subspaces. A method that uses the measurements to automatically optimize the subspace division along with a way to estimate the noise level is introduced. The signal-noise subspace decomposition is then extended to deal with an interfering signal that lies in a known linear subspace by modifying the SVD and performing the sparse recovery in the modified signal subspace. The proposed technique is applied successfully to the Discrete Spectrum of Relaxation Frequencies (DSRF) extraction problem for Electromagnetic Induction (EMI) underground sensing where a strong interference from the soil is a significant concern.","PeriodicalId":91992,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Signal Processing and Signal Processing Education Workshop (SP/SPE)","volume":"13 1","pages":"202-207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81499672","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":"Practical insights on full-duplex personal wireless communications gained from operational experience in the satellite environment","authors":"G. Collins, J. Treichler","doi":"10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369541","url":null,"abstract":"Full-duplex communications for personal communications wireless links, wherein both ends of a link can transmit and receive continuously on the same frequency, is of considerable commercial interest, inspiring a good deal of theoretical and practical study. A part of most proposed schemes is a digital stage capable of substantially reducing self-interference induced by the two transmitters. For some ten years now a technique for doing this has been in commercial use for satellite communications. This paper examines that technique and uses it to guide current research and to estimate the performance that might be practically achieved.","PeriodicalId":91992,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Signal Processing and Signal Processing Education Workshop (SP/SPE)","volume":"27 1","pages":"136-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82290329","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":"Image loss concealment using edge-guided interpolation and multi-scale transformation","authors":"Bahareh Langari, J. Stonham, A. Mousavi","doi":"10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DSP-SPE.2015.7369586","url":null,"abstract":"A novel global edge interpolation, based on new edge-guided interpolation methods for image gap restoration, is presented. The gap restoration is achieved by incorporating the edge-based directional interpolation within a multi-scale DCT/DWT pyramid transform. Two categories of image edges are proposed and utilised in the image gap reconstruction process. First, the local edges, or textures inferred from estimation of the gradients of the neighbouring pixels in various directions, are measured. Second, the global edges, or boundaries between image objects or segments, are estimated by using the Canny edge detector. Evaluations over a range of images, in regular and random loss pattern, at loss rates of up to 40%, reveal that the proposed method results in improved quality of the image and increase in PSNR by 1 to 5 dB compared to a range of best published works.","PeriodicalId":91992,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Signal Processing and Signal Processing Education Workshop (SP/SPE)","volume":"11 1","pages":"391-396"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77622227","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}