Adaptive M-estimators for use in structured and unstructured robust covariance estimation

IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 573-578

  Brown, Christopher L ^a   Brcich, Ramon F ^a   Debes, Christian ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Covariance; M estimators; Robust estimation

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PROCESSING; COVARIANCE MATRIX; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPARISON CRITERION; COVARIANCE MATRIX ESTIMATION; M-ESTIMATORS; ROBUST ESTIMATION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 33947151550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ssp.2005.1628660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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