Optimum receivers for pattern recognition in the presence of Gaussian noise with unknown statistics

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1844-1852

  Towghi, Nasser ^a,b   Javidi, Bahram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); ITERATIVE METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

OPTIMUM RECEIVERS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0038600652     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.001844     Document Type: Article

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