Recent advances in rapid frequency estimation

  • Authors:
  • Barry G. Quinn

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Statistics, EFS, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

There are two main types of frequency estimator-the traditional, based on FFT's, and the more modern, based on linear filtering. Statistical and computational efficiency usually have to be traded off against each other. Typically the filter-based estimators are statistically grossly inefficient. This paper discusses the extension of the Quinn-Fernandes (filter-based, statistically optimal) technique to complex-valued signals, and the use of zero-padding to improve the statistical efficiency of the Fourier transform interpolative (FTI) estimator to statistical near-optimality.