Matching wavelet packets to Gaussian random processes

Autor: Jose M. F. Moura, Nirmal Keshava
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 47:1604-1614
ISSN: 1053-587X
DOI: 10.1109/78.765130
Popis: We consider the problem of approximating a set of arbitrary, discrete-time, Gaussian random processes by a single, representative wavelet-based, Gaussian process. We measure the similarity between the original processes and the wavelet-based process with the Bhattacharyya (1943) coefficient. By manipulating the Bhattacharyya coefficient, we reduce the task of defining the representative process to finding an optimal unitary matrix of wavelet-based eigenvectors, an associated diagonal matrix of eigenvalues, and a mean vector. The matching algorithm we derive maximizes the nonadditive Bhattacharyya coefficient in three steps: a migration algorithm that determines the best basis by searching through a wavelet packet tree for the optimal unitary matrix of wavelet-based eigenvectors; and two separate fixed-point algorithms that derive an appropriate set of eigenvalues and a mean vector. We illustrate the method with two different classes of processes: first-order Markov and bandlimited. The technique is also applied to the problem of robust terrain classification in polarimetric SAR images.
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