A Bayesian approach to adaptive detection in nonhomogeneous environments

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 205-217

  Bidon, Stéphanie ^a   Besson, Olivier ^a   Tourneret, Jean Yves ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b IRIT   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive detection; Bayesian model; Covariance matrix estimation; Heterogeneous environment; Maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation; Minimum mean square error estimation; Monte Carlo methods

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ADAPTIVE DETECTION; JOINT POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI (MAP) ESTIMATION;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 37749036705     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.901664     Document Type: Article

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