Efficient and accurate spline-based time delay estimation

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 870-873

  Viola, Francesco ^a   Walker, William F ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHO LINES; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUM SQUARED ERRORS (SSE); TIME DELAY ESTIMATORS (TDE);

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; VECTORS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 21644481548     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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