Virtues and vices of quartic time-frequency distributions

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2641-2650

  O'Neill, Jeffrey C ^a,b   Flandrin, Patrick ^a,b  

^a NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Chirp modulation; Estimation; Signal representation; Time frequency analysis; Wigner distributions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

LOCAL AMBIGUITY FUNCTION; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; WIGNER DISTRIBUTION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0034258867     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.863070     Document Type: Article

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