Performance of quadratic time-frequency distributions as instantaneous frequency estimators

Authors:
V.N. Ivanovic;M. Dakovic;L. Stankovic
Affiliations:
Elektrotehnicki Fakultet, Univ. of Montenegro, Yugoslavia;-;-
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Year:
2003

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Abstract

General performance analysis of the shift covariant class of quadratic time-frequency distributions (TFDs) as instantaneous frequency (IF) estimators, for an arbitrary frequency-modulated (FM) signal, is presented. Expressions for the estimation bias and variance are derived. This class of distributions behaves as an unbiased estimator in the case of monocomponent signals with a linear IF. However, when the IF is not a linear function of time, then the estimate is biased. Cases of white stationary and white nonstationary additive noises are considered. The well-known results for the Wigner distribution (WD) and linear FM signal, and the spectrogram of signals whose IF may be considered as a constant within the lag window, are presented as special cases. In addition, we have derived the variance expression for the spectrogram of a linear FM signal that is quite simple but highly signal dependent. This signal is considered in the cases of other commonly used distributions, such as the Born-Jordan and the Choi-Williams distributions. It has been shown that the reduced interference distributions outperform the WD but only in the case when the IF is constant or its variations are small. Analysis is extended to the IF estimation of signal components in the case of multicomponent signals. All theoretical results are statistically confirmed.