Bayesian estimation of time delays between unevenly sampled signals

  • Authors:
  • Markus Harva;Somak Raychaudhury

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory of Computer and Information Science, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 5400, FI-02015 TKK, Espoo, Finland;School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A method for estimating time delays between signals that are irregularly sampled is presented. The approach is based on postulating a latent variable model encoding the assumption of slow variability of the underlying source signal. The posterior distribution of the delay is obtained partly by exact marginalisation computable by a specific type of Kalman filter and partly by Markov chain Monte Carlo. Experiments with artificial data show the effectiveness of the proposed approach while results with real-world gravitational lens data provide the main motivation for this work.