Regularity and Unitarity of Bilinear Time-Frequency Signal Representations

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 82-94

  Hlawatsch, Franz ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

bilinear signal representations; Cohen class; Time frequency analysis; Wigner distribution

Indexed keywords

BILINEAR TIME-FREQUENCY REPRESENTATIONS; REGULARITY; SIGNAL REPRESENTATIONS; UNITARITY;

SIGNAL THEORY;

EID: 0026727385     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.108252     Document Type: Article

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