High resolution spectrograms using a component optimized short-term fractional Fourier transform

  • Authors:
  • Aled T. Catherall;Duncan P. Williams

  • Affiliations:
  • Defence Science & Technology Laboratory, Physical Sciences, Porton Down, Salisbury SP4 0JQ, UK;Defence Science & Technology Laboratory, Physical Sciences, Porton Down, Salisbury SP4 0JQ, UK

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present an algorithm based on a short-term representation of the fractional Fourier transform which is highly suited to signals that contain multiple non-stationary components. To compare the time-frequency resolution of such signals using our proposed technique, we analyze several signals which contain multiple non-stationary components, including a synthetic signal and a bat echolocation signal. We demonstrate that our technique offers time-frequency representations with superior time-frequency resolution than several other established methods.