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... ' 2.83 While random noise has no exact peak-to-peak value, it is approximately to times the standard deviation Table 2-1 lists a computer routine for calculating the mean and standard deviation ... on the mean and standard deviation, two other terms need to be mentioned In some situations, the mean describes what is being measured, while the standard deviation represents noiseand other interference ... provides a more accurate Chapter 2- Statistics, Probability andNoise 8 a Changing mean and standard deviation b Changing mean, constant standard deviation 4 Amplitude Amplitude 19 -2 -2 -4 -4 64...
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... Nevertheless, nonGaussian noise occurs often in practice For instance, underwater acoustic noise, low-frequency atmospheric noise, radar clutter noise, and urban and man-made radio-frequency noise all are ... Order Selection • Model Validation • Confidence Intervals 16.4 Noise Modeling Generalized Gaussian Noise • Middleton Class A Noise • Stable Noise Distribution Jitendra K Tugnait Auburn University 16.1 ... stationary random processes, whether signal or noise, have been found to be useful in a wide variety of signal processing tasks such as signal detection, estimation, filtering, and classification, and...
... Hz to 80 Hz; band is band-pass and covers 80 Hz to kHz; band is high-pass and covers above kHz; and band is also high-pass and covers above kHz At the encoder the gain of each band is adaptively ... enhancement and speech recognition Speech is generated by inhaling air into the lungs, and then exhaling it through the vibrating glottis cords and the vocal tract The random, noise- like, air flow ... signal is modelled as the output of a filter excited by a random signal The random excitation models the air exhaled through the lung, and the filter models the vibrations of the glottal cords and...
... shape; examples are pink noise, brown noiseand autoregressive noise (e) Impulsive noise: consists of short-duration pulses of random amplitude and random duration (f) Transient noise pulses: consists ... White noise: purely random noise that has a flat power spectrum White noise theoretically contains all frequencies in equal intensity (c) Band-limited white noise: a noise with a flat spectrum and ... the signal and the noise processes The models are then used for the decoding of the underlying states of the signal and noise, and for noisy signal recognition and enhancement Noise and Distortion...
... Autocorrelation and power spectrum of impulsive noise Impulsive noise is a random, binary-state (“on/off”) sequence of impulses of random amplitudes and random time of occurrence In Chapter 12, a random ... stochastic processes for modelling random noise such as white noise, clutters, shot noiseand impulsive noise Bibliography ANDERSON O.D (1976) Time Series Analysis and Forecasting The Box– Jenkins ... Model for Clutters and Impulsive Noise An impulsive noise process consists of a sequence of short-duration pulses of random amplitude and random time of occurrence whose shape and duration depends...
... additive random noise process In Figure 4.1, the distributions of the random noise n, the random input e and the parameter vector θ are modelled by probability density functions, fN(n), fE(e), and ... is the random input of the AR model and n is the random noise Using Equation (4.3), the signal restoration process involves the estimation of both the model parameter vector θ and the random input ... a symmetric and an asymmetric pdf and their respective mode, mean and median and the relations to MAP, MAVE and MMSE estimates 4.2.6 The Influence of the Prior on Estimation Bias and Variance...
... Speech Wiener filter Noise states NoiseNoise HMMs Figure 5.12 Outline configuration of HMM-based noisy speech recognition and enhancement 5.6 Signal andNoise Model Combination and Decomposition ... Wiener filtering and the spectral subtraction methods described in Chapters and 11) or by combining the noiseand the signal models to model the noisy Signal andNoise Model Combination and Decomposition ... signal and the noise HMMs maybe expressed as MAP s signal = arg max max f Y (Y , ssignal , s noise M ,η ) s signal s noise (5.46) MAP s noise = arg max max f Y (Y , ssignal , s noise...
... x(m) and the noise n(m): Ryy = Rxx + Rnn (6.46) rxy = rxx (6.47) and we can also write where Ryy, Rxx and Rnn are the autocorrelation matrices of the noisy signal, the noise- free signal and the noise ... separability: (a) The signal andnoise spectra not overlap, and the signal can be recovered by a low-pass filter; (b) the signal andnoise spectra overlap, and the noise can be reduced but not ... Filter for Additive Noise Reduction Consider a signal x(m) observed in a broadband additive noise n(m)., and model as y(m) = x(m) + n(m) (6.45) Assuming that the signal and the noise are uncorrelated,...
... m | m − 1) ~ ( m| m − 1)] = x (7.20) and we have also used the assumption that the signal and the noise are uncorrelated Substitution of Equations (7.9) and (7.16) in Equation (7.15) yields the ... y(m)= x(m) + n(m) (7.34) 2 Let σ e (m) and σ n (m) denote the variances of the excitation signal e(m) and the noise n(m) respectively Substituting Φ(m+1,m)=a(m) and H(m)=1 in the Kalman filter equations ... Recursive estimation of a constant signal observed in noise Consider the estimation of a constant signal observed in a random noise The state and observation equations for this problem are given...
... enhancement and speech recognition Speech is generated by inhaling airand then exhaling it through the glottis and the vocal tract The noise- like air, from the lung, is modulated and shaped by ... X Ba ) 2 (8.55) where X and x are the signal matrix and vector defined by Equations (8.12) and (8.13), and similarly XB and xB are the signal matrix and vector for the backward predictor ... flexibility and better performance Sub-Band Linear Prediction Model 253 In sub-band linear prediction, the signal x(m) is passed through a bank of N band-pass filters, and is split into N sub-band signals...
... Hz to 80 Hz; band is band-pass and covers 80 Hz to kHz; band is high-pass and covers above kHz; and band is also high-pass and covers above kHz At the encoder the gain of each band is adaptively ... 2.2 White Noise 2.3 Coloured Noise 2.4 Impulsive Noise 2.5 Transient Noise Pulses N 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 Thermal Noise Shot Noise Electromagnetic Noise Channel Distortions Modelling Noise oise ... communication and measurement systems Therefore the modelling and removal of the effects of noiseand distortion have been at the core of the theory and practice of communications and signal processing Noise...
... detection and removal of impulsive noiseand transient noise pulses In Chapter 12, impulsive noise is modelled as a binary−state non-stationary process and several stochastic models for impulsive noise ... Signals in Noise .167 5.6 Signal andNoise Model Combination and Decomposition .170 5.6.1 Hidden Markov Model Combination 170 5.6.2 Decomposition of State Sequences of Signal and Noise. 171 ... including thermal noise, shot noise, acoustic noise, electromagnetic noiseand channel distortions, are considered The chapter concludes with an introduction to the modelling of noise processes...
... {vP+1, , vN} span the noise subspace and have σ n as their eigenvalues Since the signal andnoise eigenvectors are orthogonal, it follows that the signal subspace and the noise subspace are orthogonal ... of the noisy signal into a signal subspace and a noise subspace The orthogonality of the signal andnoise subspaces is used to estimate the signal andnoise parameters In the next chapter, we use ... autocorrelation matrices of the signal x and the noise as R yy = R xx + Rnn = SPS H + σ I n (9.93) where Rxx=SPSH and Rnn=σn2I are the autocorrelation matrices of the signal andnoise processes, the exponent...
... case of a band-limited random signal if the sampling rate is greater than M times the Nyquist rate However, in many practical cases, the signal is a realisation of a random process, and the sampling ... recognition and decision making systems We started this chapter with a study of the ideal interpolation of a band-limited signal, and its applications in digital-to-analog conversion and in multirate ... original base-band spectrum X(f) and the repetitions or images of X(f) spaced uniformly at frequency intervals of Fs=1/Ts When the sampling frequency is above the Nyquist rate, the baseband spectrum...
... effect of noise on a signal in the time and the frequency domains 335 Spectral Subtraction where y(m), x(m) and n(m) are the signal, the additive noiseand the noisy signal respectively, and m is ... Degraded by Additive White Noise IEEE Trans Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ASSP-26, 5, pp 471–472 LINHARD K and KLEMM H (1997) Noise Reduction with Spectral Subtraction and Median Filtering ... sounding noise, known as “musical tone noise due to their narrowband spectrum and the tin-like sound The success of spectral subtraction depends on the ability of the algorithm to reduce the noise...
... 359 Impulsive Noise 12.1.1 Autocorrelation and Power Spectrum of Impulsive Noise Impulsive noise is a non-stationary, binary-state sequence of impulses with random amplitudes and random positions ... be modelled as an amplitude-modulated binary-state sequence, and expressed as ni (m) = n(m) b(m) (12.6) where b(m) is a binary-state random sequence of ones and zeros, and n(m) is a random noise ... the noise from the signal, and the representation domain must be the one that emphasises the distinguishing features of the signal and the noise Impulsive noise is normally more distinct and...