The uncertainty principle: Global, local, or both?

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1218-1227

  Loughlin, Patrick J ^a   Cohen, Leon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Local moments; Time bandwidth product; Time frequency; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

LOCAL MOMENTS; TIME-BANDWIDTH PRODUCT; TIME-FREQUENCY; UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 2442623404     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2004.826160     Document Type: Article

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