The viterbi optimal runlength-constrained approximation nonlinear filter

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 586-598

  Sidiropoulos, Nicholas D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

FINITE ALPHABET SEQUENCE; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING; VITERBI OPTIMAL RUNLENGTH CONSTRAINED APPROXIMATION; VITERBI TYPE OPTIMAL ALGORITHMIC;

DIGITAL FILTERS;

EID: 0030109348     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.489032     Document Type: Article

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